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The machines, which were being tested in a few warehouses in recent years, are able to scan goods coming down a conveyor belt and put them in custom-built boxes a few seconds later.
The machines can pack up boxes at a rate of 600 to 700 per hour, or four to five times as fast as human workers, according to Reuters, which first reported the development.
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New Amazon Machines Can Pack 600 Orders Per Hour, Could Replace Thousands of Jobs
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(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Monday May 20 2019, @02:35PM
$13 per hour for packers if you believe glassdoor.com [glassdoor.com]. Although I didn't throw in the $869 (/year?) additional they list, $54,080 / year even if you double the hourly for benefits/overhead on a 40 by 52 basis (and they'd be crazy to use actual FT for workers - they should load with PT's to avoid benefits). And my guess is that the average would offset where $15 is minimum wage with an equal number of $11 jobs.
Figure that the $55 million is depreciated over 5 years for $11 million / year cost, and you get breakeven at 203.4 FTE cuts. It jumps to 271.2 FTE if you figure bennies/OH at half of salary ($19.60/hour gross expense).
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