Internal Amazon documents suggest that the company is looking into building and using more robots to replace human workers. The publication doesn’t specify if this will result in massive layoffs. However, the robots would allow Amazon to avoid hiring new workers to meet increasing demand, translating to 600,000 jobs replaced by 2033, according to the report.
Amazon announced in June that it had hit a workforce milestone of deploying more than 1 million robots in its fulfillment and delivery network, making it about two-thirds the size of the company’s human workforce. The Amazon documents show that the company’s goal is to automate 75% of its operations, The Times reported.
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