{"id":15958,"date":"2017-12-05T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T14:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=15958"},"modified":"2017-12-05T05:21:17","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T10:21:17","slug":"does-amazon-create-or-destroy-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2017\/does-amazon-create-or-destroy-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Amazon Create Or Destroy Jobs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/120517_1018_DoesAmazonC1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"379\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dave Edwards and Helen Edwards looked at the workplace impacts of Amazon:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>By the end of 2017 Amazon is expected to have increased its workforce by 147,000 employees \u2013 a remarkable 43% increase.<\/li>\n<li>Yet overall employment in the areas of retail that Amazon competes in (think book stores instead of gas stations) will decline by 24,000.<\/li>\n<li>This is likely because as Amazon grows its operations, people increasingly choose to buy from its stores, rather than brick and mortar ones.<\/li>\n<li>The stock market reflects this. Amazon&#8217;s stock is up about 60% this year \u2013 while the S&amp;P Retail Index has remained stable.<\/li>\n<li>There is one category of worker that Amazon has done wonders for: robots. By the end of 2017 it is expected to have added 75,000 new robots to its workforce.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1107112\/there-are-170000-fewer-retail-jobs-in-2017-and-75000-more-amazon-robots\/\">Quartz<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Edwards and Helen Edwards looked at the workplace impacts of Amazon: By the end of 2017 Amazon is expected to have increased its workforce by 147,000 employees \u2013 a remarkable 43% increase. Yet overall employment in the areas of retail that Amazon competes in (think book stores instead of gas stations) will decline by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/120517_1018_DoesAmazonC1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15958"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15961,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15958\/revisions\/15961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}