The e‑commerce sector is experiencing a continuous boom in logistics due to digitization. Along with mostly manual activities, people remain a decisive resource in the warehouse, which must be retained and integrated with a particular view to demographic change. In the article, the survey results of a field study with focus on the area of order picking, which was conducted at a large mail-order company, are described as an example and compared with survey results from other companies.
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