It’s hard to think of any other company that has shaped the labor market as much as Amazon has over the past two decades. Now, internal documents and interviews obtained by the New York Times point to the next far-reaching change.

According to the insider report, Amazon is planning to replace around 600,000 jobs in the United States with robots by 2033. Up to 75 percent of all operational processes will be automated in the future.

Replacing human workers with robots to save billions of dollars

Since 2018, the number of Amazon employees in the US has more than tripled to almost 1.2 million. Nevertheless, managers have reportedly informed the board last year that the company will not need to hire any more US employees in the future thanks to advancements in robot automation—even if sale

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