Posted on 10/21/2025 5:39:06 AM PDT by Cronos
Over the past two decades, no company has done more to shape the American workplace than Amazon. In its ascent to become the nation’s second-largest employer, it has hired hundreds of thousands of warehouse workers, built an army of contract drivers and pioneered using technology to hire, monitor and manage employees.
Now, interviews and a cache of internal strategy documents viewed by The New York Times reveal that Amazon executives believe the company is on the cusp of its next big workplace shift: replacing more than half a million jobs with robots.
Amazon’s automation team expects the company can avoid hiring more than 160,000 people in the United States it would otherwise need by 2027. That would save about 30 cents on each item that Amazon picks, packs and delivers to customers.
Executives told Amazon’s board last year that they hoped robotic automation would allow the company to continue to avoid adding to its U.S. work force in the coming years, even though they expect to sell twice as many products by 2033. That would translate to more than 600,000 people whom Amazon didn’t need to hire.
...At facilities designed for superfast deliveries, Amazon is trying to create warehouses that employ few humans at all. And documents show that Amazon’s robotics team has an ultimate goal to automate 75 percent of its operations
..Bracing for job cuts, some employees working on the transition have strategized ways to “control the narrative” in Georgia by focusing on new technician jobs and “innovation to give local officials a sense of pride,” documents show
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Robots have been staffing warehouses for many years.
Somebody’s gotta maintain the robots.......PIVOT!
That’s where the smart money is.
CC
a major employment crisis looms - with AI ahead - and i don’t hear much creative thinking about it. but to unleash a giant influx of unskilled immigrants on the country at such a time was pure idiocy along with being wrong. glad deportations are being handled seriously.
“a major employment crisis looms”
America is on the brink of failure because of the shortage of skilled laborers. The Navy can’t build ships fast enough, for instance.
The really smart money bought Nvidia shares
Now those workers will be free to sit home and order stuff from Amazon with tier free time.
If we work hard enough every American native worker can be replaced with an immigrant or AI. Then we can truly be a “nation of consumers”.
Will the Robots join the ALU?
Where was the crises mentality when millions of manufacturing jobs were off shored? A nation of greedy hypocrites.
Amazing how little money there is in retail.
It will almost be funny, when these warehouses stop getting filled.
MAGFR!
That is why my son-in-law went from lab tech to medical technology. He could see that lab techs are going to be replaced by machines in the next 10-20 years.
When my office upgraded from hard copy documents to web based back in the early 2000s everybody bitched about it.....me, I embraced the change, seeing it would streamline our processes.
I ended up becoming the subject matter expert for several software tools which subsequently led to upward mobility and eventually one very decent promotion that is still paying dividends in my retirement.
Things are what you make of them......too many lazy ass people in this country nowadays that expect maximum compensation for minimum output.
There is a temporary shortage until wages go up. The labor market is fluid get it?
Do you follow Mike Rowe?
Fine by me - I’ve had way too many Amazon packages that absolutely STINK from overly perfumed employees ‘ambiance.’
Well said.
Mike Rowe is an idiot.
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