{"id":1022354,"date":"2026-07-20T09:59:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T04:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1022354"},"modified":"2026-07-20T09:59:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T04:29:24","slug":"amazon-wants-software-not-supervisors-to-decide-warehouse-staffing-managers-say-the-ai-overreacted-to-a-brief-slowdown-and-recommended-cuts-that-didnt-reflect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/20\/amazon-wants-software-not-supervisors-to-decide-warehouse-staffing-managers-say-the-ai-overreacted-to-a-brief-slowdown-and-recommended-cuts-that-didnt-reflect\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon wants software, not supervisors, to decide warehouse staffing; managers say the AI &#8216;overreacted to a brief slowdown&#8217; and recommended cuts that didn&#8217;t reflect\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon is quietly building software that decides where warehouse workers should go, and it&#8217;s running into a problem the company didn&#8217;t fully anticipate: the humans still in charge keep ignoring it. According to internal documents and Slack conversations obtained by Business Insider, some managers at Amazon&#8217;s fulfillment and sort centers have been overriding the AI recommendations, asking engineers to switch off automated features, and finding quiet workarounds to keep control of their own floors.<\/p>\n<p>The stakes are large. Business Insider reports that Amazon plans to expand these labor-management systems across dozens of North American facilities, where they could save hundreds of millions of dollars a year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon is quietly building software that decides where warehouse workers should go, and it&#8217;s running into a problem the company didn&#8217;t fully anticipate: the humans still in charge keep ignoring it. According to internal documents and Slack conversations obtained by Business Insider, some managers at Amazon&#8217;s fulfillment and sort centers have been overriding the AI recommendations, asking engineers to switch off automated features, and finding quiet workarounds to keep control of their own floors. The stakes are large. Business Insider reports that Amazon plans to expand these labor-management systems across dozens of North American facilities, where they could save hundreds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022357,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022354\/revisions\/1022357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}