Inside Amazon’s automation drive — The robots poised to replace 500,000 workers
Amazon’s plan to replace over 500,000 US jobs with robots signals a global shift in how tech giants view labour — a trend that could soon reshape India’s booming warehousing and logistics sector, where automation may threaten millions of low-skill jobs while creating demand for tech-driven roles.
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.
