Robots getting the jobs

[wtg]

Some people involved here, but still...

Japanese convenience stores are hiring robots run by workers in the Philippines

Filipino tele-operators remotely control Japan’s convenience store robots and train AI, benefiting from an uptick in automation-related jobs.

https://restofworld.org/2025/philippines-offshoring-automation-tech-jobs/

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Amazon's workforce may start to look a little less human in a few years. The New York Times reports that the company plans to avoid adding more than half a million jobs by 2033 by putting more robots to work. Times technology correspondent Karen Weise found that Amazon's robotics group has a long-term goal to automate 75% of its operations, and I asked her why.

KAREN WEISE: It's a huge cost for the company to pay so many people to deliver all the products that we all order, it seems like, all the time. And there's been a lot of advancements in robotics in recent years, particularly with AI and other things like that. So you can actually see progress being made in this effort to kind of keep the headcount down or from growing as fast as it has in the past.

MARTÍNEZ: Yeah, and people have accidents. People need medical insurance. I don't think robots need all that, as far as I know, right?

WEISE: Exactly, yes. All of that, if you can standardize, just becomes a lot more predictable and a lot more in their control.

https://www.npr.org/2025/10/22/nx-s1-5581370/amazon-wants-to-use-robots-to-avoid-adding-over-500-000-new-jobs

[ShiroKuro]

@wtg wow that was both fascinating and depressing.

Nothing like having to train your replacement.