Flattening
When Amazon unveiled its Vulcan touch-sensing warehouse robot last week, it framed the technology as a way to make frontline jobs safer and easier.What the company didn’t mention is a broader ambition: using Vulcan and its expanding fleet of warehouse robots to reduce its need to hire a lot more…
Microsoft is slashing thousands of jobs to try to increase what it calls “span of control,” or the number of employees who report to each manager.The software giant on Tuesday confirmed the cuts, which Business Insider first reported in April. Microsoft said about 3% of its global workforce, roughly 6,000…
