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For Warehouse Workers, Technology Starts to Look More Like Home

When Bert Hooper brings on new workers at TechStyle Fashion Group’s 450,000 square-foot warehouse in Perris, California, he tells them, “If you know how to use a smartphone and you know how to use an app, you can do about any operation that we have in our facility.”

DHL Reports on A.I.’s Potential Benefits — and Looming Concerns — in Logistics

DHL and IBM have released a joint report on the development of artificial intelligence (A.I.) technology and its potential to change the logistics industry — noting that, in many ways, A.I. is already making profound changes to the retail environment, not all of which are positive.

How Mondelez Overhauled Its Cocoa Supply Chain

If she hadn’t visited the cocoa farms supplying Mondelez, Cathy Pieters wouldn’t have see there was “an urgent need” to rejuvenate many of the plants.

Why Home Depot Is Hiring 1,000 I.T. Workers

Home Depot has a plan to stay relevant in a world where other retailers are being dealt death blows.

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Robot Conquers One of the Hardest Human Tasks: Assembling Ikea Furniture

Robots have taken our jobs, learned our chores and beaten us at our own games.

Elon Musk Drafts in Humans After Robots Slow Down Tesla Model 3 Production

Elon Musk has admitted that automation has been holding back Tesla’s Model 3 production and that humans, rather than machines, were the answer.

Robot Managers: The Future of Work or a Step Too Far?

First they took the factory jobs; next, robots are expected to replace mortgage brokers, paralegals, and accountants. It has always been assumed, however, that jobs requiring human interaction would remain safe.

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BRE Offers New Online Modern Slavery Monitoring Tool

An online self assessment tool will help businesses improve their due diligence in preventing modern slavery and other supply chain labour abuses.

California State Senator Seeks to Crack Down on Wage Theft in Port Trucking Industry

A California state senator is proposing a bill aimed at holding major retailers accountable for using port truck companies that have a history of engaging in wage theft of drivers who are misclassified as independent contractors.

U.S. Manufacturers Worry Tariffs Could Undermine Recovery

Manufacturers are expressing trepidation that a burgeoning rebound in blue-collar jobs could be undermined by an all-out trade war with China.

Opinion: How Did We Let Modern Slavery Become Part of Our Everyday Lives?

Since the Modern Slavery Act of 2015, British companies over a certain size have been required to report on slavery in their supply chains. Their statements are both shocking and admirable.

Trucking Companies Are Struggling to Attract Drivers to the Big-Rig Life

Trucking companies eager to hire more drivers but facing a slim pipeline of new recruits aren’t finding much to encourage them at the James Rumsey Technical Institute in Martinsburg, W.Va.

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