Amazon executives are moving to replace more than half a million workers with robots within the decade to save the company billions.

The retail website, which has become America’s second-largest employer behind Walmart, has tripled its workforce to 1.2 million since 2018.

However, Amazon is planning drastic changes for its workforce over the next eight years.

A cache of internal strategy documents, viewed by The New York Times , revealed Amazon executives were close to enacting the company’s next big move.

Amazon’s automation team will seek to avoid hiring more than 160,000 people in the US by 2027.

Executives told Amazon’s board in 2024 the robotic automation would help the company avoid having to hire 600,000 people by 2033, when the company expects products sold to double.

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