Packages move along a conveyor belt at the United Parcel Service Inc. (UPS) Chicago Area Consolidation Hub (CACH) facility in Hodgkins, Illinois, U.S., on Monday, Nov. 28, 2016. Online stores are counting on shoppers to spend big during the "Cyber Five" period from Thanksgiving to Cyber Monday to make up for time spent earlier this month obsessing about the presidential election instead.
Packages move along a conveyor belt at the United Parcel Service Inc. (UPS) Chicago Area Consolidation Hub (CACH) facility in Hodgkins, Illinois, U.S., on Monday, Nov. 28, 2016. Online stores are counting on shoppers to spend big during the "Cyber Five" period from Thanksgiving to Cyber Monday to make up for time spent earlier this month obsessing about the presidential election instead.

Los mayores despidos de United Parcel Service Inc. en sus 116 años de historia han sido posibles, en parte, gracias a las nuevas tecnologías, incluida la inteligencia artificial, dijo la semana pasada la directora ejecutiva Carol Tomé. Citando un ejemplo, dijo que el aprendizaje automático permite a los vendedores elaborar propuestas sin tener que pedir orientación a expertos en fijación de precios.