Amazons Price To Retool Staff ls $700 Million.

The article reports on the plan announced by electronic commerce company Amazon on June 11, 2019 to spend 700 million dollars to employee retraining to retain a third of its American workers to do more high-skilled jobs. Topics include the fear by workers that they will lose their jobs to robots and algorithms, how the investment will help answer the question of whether automation is a solution to the challenges of the 21st century economy, and training programs announced by other big firms.