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"Last week, Amazon extended buyout offers to hundreds of its recruiters as part of what is expected to be a months-long cycle of layoffs." The article implies t
by andrewfromx 4y ago
"Last week, Amazon extended buyout offers to hundreds of its recruiters as part of what is expected to be a months-long cycle of layoffs." The article implies this is because they now have some AI that can scrape linkedin, reach out to potential talent, and do everything the recruiters were doing. i.e. it wasn't a warehouse amazon job that was automated away, but a white collar desk job.
- version_five 4y ago> it wasn't a warehouse amazon job that was automated away, but a white collar desk This has generally proven true. The hardest jobs to automate require hand eye coordination and the ability to grasp and pick up arbitrarily shaped and positioned objects. Rote data manipulation, organizing, or scheduling tasks are most easily automated (or pushed to the end user) using modern tech. The classic example is that uber automated taxi dispatching, not driving.