Amazon is Replacing 600,000 U.S. Workers Through Robotics
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Oct. 22, 2025 | AUTOMATION | Internal documents obtained from Amazon’s robotics division reveal an ambitious and controversial plan: to automate up to 75 percent of the company’s operations over the next decade, reducing its reliance on human labor across the United States. The strategy outlines a potential reduction in future hiring needs by more than 600,000 jobs by the year 2033. In the shorter term, Amazon reportedly aims to avoid hiring approximately 160,000 U.S. workers by 2027, translating to about $12.6 billion in projected cost savings. … With hundreds of fulfillment centers and hundreds of thousands of employees handling millions of daily orders, labor represents one of the company’s largest expenses. Tech Story
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