Technology making it possible to operate warehouse equipment remotely from thousands of miles away is giving people with mental and physical disabilities and those located far from the job site a shot at good paying jobs while helping to mitigate that shortage.
laid out to Forbes.com the challenge of attracting people to take on jobs such as operating yard trucks, noting, “we are limited to the people that are already predisposed and inclined to do this kind of work and people that are inclined to do this kind of work have more attractive alternatives.”One of those “more attractive alternatives” is shaping up to be Phantom Auto's remote operation technology.
Israeli military veteran Arnon Amit was injured during his service and now uses a wheelchair. He told Forbes.com employment after his injury 14 years ago had been fairly sporadic. But now he operates forklifts located in the U.S. and conducts research to improve the system for a wide variety of disabled people from Phantom's office in Tel Aviv.
When the married father of three lost the lease on the condo his family was renting at a cut rate, Blazquez quickly found he couldn't find a new home in the expensive area he could afford on his current salary and he didn't want move, giving up his well-paying job. He got to have it all. Katz says demand is high for remote equipment operators noting, “We are actively hiring operators to keep up with the pace of deployment, and aim to have hundreds of operators this year.”
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