A delivery hub for the ultrafast delivery company Gorillas in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, is one of many so-called “dark stores.” Erika Ramirez/Insider Gale Brewer, the Manhattan borough president, was walking around the Upper West Side last fall when she noticed several new grocery stores in the neighborhood. They stood out, not because they had flashy signs…
As warehousing spreads across the US — and warehouse work becomes one of the dominant forms of blue-collar employment — Blackstone and Prologis increasingly control how America gets its stuff. Bruce Bennett/Getty Images At the turn of the century, warehouses were like the bonds of the commercial-real-estate world: safe, predictable, and a little boring. But…
The ways to ship a bag of dog food, or anything else, are so numerous and varied that an industry of software companies exists just to help chart those paths. Dozens of logistics companies focus on moving boxes via planes, trains, trucks, and vans through nearly infinite routes. Crystal Cox/Insider Delivery drivers hate moving dog…
A Ukrainian man in a tank in a newly liberated village in Ukraine’s Kherson region on October 7, 2022. Metin Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Ukraine is edging closer to Kherson in its counteroffensive, and Russia says a fight is close. The city was the first Russia took, and losing it would be a huge…
“There are strong connections between the hardships of the job — including the productivity monitoring and algorithmic control of their work — and psychological distress,” Steven Vallas, a professor of sociology at Northeastern University, says of warehouse work. “There’s an alienated feeling toward one’s job.” Ralph D. Freso/Reuters Never in its history — perhaps even…
Alonso Guzmán Barone for Insider A quiet crisis is spreading through Amazon warehouses. Data collected in workplace inspections indicates that Amazon’s pace of work wildly increases the risk of injury for its more than 750,000 US warehouse workers. The risk of debilitating muscle and joint injuries is off the charts, workplace regulators have said. Because…
Maxar Four days a week, Mahamed Elabe wakes up in the early afternoon and packs a lunch he’ll eat at midnight. Then he drives half an hour to his job on the night shift at an e-commerce warehouse east of Columbus, Ohio, where he picks, packs, and ships orders for people shopping at Lane Bryant’s…
Thomas Barwick/Getty Images Since the end of the Great Recession, a major force has changed the landscape and the working life for millions of Americans: warehouses. It’s a world that is kept far from the box delivered to your doorstep, but, as warehouses expand into more cities and neighborhoods, it’s creeping closer every year. Here,…
Picture Palace/Getty Images As the US emerged from the Great Recession, cheap real estate and the rise of e-commerce collided to create a warehousing boom. As Amazon and others began building million-square-foot distribution centers, construction skyrocketed. Since 2011, over 2.3 billion square feet of new warehouse space has come to market — enough room to…
Disney CEO Bob Chapek. Jeff Gritchen: MediaNews Group: Orange County Register via Getty Images Streaming merged media with technology, driving companies from Disney to TikTok to compete for talent. Insider analyzed US pay data to see what nine media giants offer top talent. They include Netflix, Snap, Roku, and more. Streaming fused media with technology,…