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Amazon, which is racing to deliver packages faster, is turning to its employees with a proposition: Quit your job and we’ll help you start a business delivering Amazon packages.
Amazon says it will cover up to $10,000 in startup costs for employees who are accepted into the program and leave their jobs. The company says it will also pay them three months’ worth of their salary. The offer is open to most part-time and full-time Amazon employees, including warehouse workers who pack and ship orders. Whole Foods employees are not eligible to receive the new incentives.
The company says it will also pay them three months’ worth of their salary.
This could be a good idea for someone who is in desperate need of cash now rather than cash later. I hope whoever signs up for this reads the fine print and runs some numbers on a piece of paper.
This could be a good idea for someone who is in desperate need of cash now rather than cash later. I hope whoever signs up for this reads the fine print and runs some numbers on a piece of paper.
On the other hand, they could be getting while the getting's good... ahead of greater automation of Amazon's warehouses. As I understand it, Big A is right on the cusp of a massive automation project being equal in cost to continuing human-drone labor.
(My youngest, a very dedicated and dogged type with few illusions about teen privilege, lasted ten days in the local Amazonhouse before saying, in so many words, to me, "Frakk that!")
Funny, I explored 'drone pilot' as a part time job recently. That market has shifted greatly as the tech has lowered in cost (barrier to entry lower). No surprise there, gadgets are always getting better as materials (composites), batteries, cameras, and microprocessors continue to explode/massively improve YoY. That's all a drone is, those components. I'll pass on that, probably, though do like gadgets.
OTOH, I wonder if Amazon will need a fleet of ind. contractor (IC) drone pilots...haven't looked into that. As a sidebar business, in my town, since drones have limited range and all... it does sound a bit intriguing. Depending on lift capacity, what the FAA thinks of all this, and much more. Someone must have figured they could monetize it, though. Given sufficient downward pressure on drone costs per-hour, I bet it's "possible."
Funny, I explored 'drone pilot' as a part time job recently. That market has shifted greatly as the tech has lowered in cost (barrier to entry lower). No surprise there, gadgets are always getting better as materials (composites), batteries, cameras, and microprocessors continue to explode/massively improve YoY. That's all a drone is, those components. I'll pass on that, probably, though do like gadgets.
OTOH, I wonder if Amazon will need a fleet of ind. contractor (IC) drone pilots...haven't looked into that. As a sidebar business, in my town, since drones have limited range and all... it does sound a bit intriguing. Depending on lift capacity, what the FAA thinks of all this, and much more. Someone must have figured they could monetize it, though. Given sufficient downward pressure on drone costs per-hour, I bet it's "possible."
I don't think the drones will be piloted. I imagine they will use GPS to a drop spot. I can't imagine it being cost effective to pilot each drone.
It might be a good business opportunity. It costs serious bucks to buy a UPS route. Amazon will move their business from UPS if they have their own delivery system all set up.
Although $10,000 for start-up won't go far. Business computers with programing, a vehicle to make the deliveries with, insurance, it adds up fast
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