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Title: Amazon Plans To Avoid Hiring 600,000 Workers Through Automation by
2033, Leaked Documents Show

Link: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/10/21/...

Amazon executives believe the company can avoid hiring more than 160,000
workers in the United States by 2027 through robotic automation. Internal
documents viewed by The New York Times show the automation would save
approximately 30 cents on each item the company picks, packs and delivers.
The documents reveal that executives told Amazon's board last year they hoped
automation would allow the company to flatten its U.S. workforce growth over
the next decade. Amazon expects to sell twice as many products by 2033. That
projection translates to more than 600,000 positions Amazon would not need to
fill. Amazon opened its most advanced warehouse in Shreveport, Louisiana last
year as a template for future facilities. The site uses a thousand robots and
employed a quarter fewer workers than it would have without automation. The
company plans to replicate this design in approximately 40 facilities by the
end of 2027. A facility in Stone Mountain, Georgia currently employs roughly
4,000 workers. After a planned robotic retrofit, internal analyses project it
will process 10% more items but need as many as 1,200 fewer employees. The
documents show Amazon's robotics team has set a goal to automate 75% of its
operations.

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