Retail giant Amazon sees more robots and fewer human employees in its future, according to a blockbuster report in the New York Times .
Referencing employee interviews and internal documents, the Time s found that the Seattle-based company hopes to replace more than a half million jobs with robots. The company’s goal, according to the documents, is to eventually automate 75 percent of its operations.
Currently, Amazon is the nation’s second-largest employer, with about 1.5 million workers around the globe . The company has been on a growth trajectory for years, especially once COVID hypercharged online shopping among the public. Even though Amazon is looking to drastically curtail hiring in the coming years, it still expects to sell twice as many products by 2033 as it does now