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News Topical, Digital Desk : America's second-largest employer, Amazon, is planning to replace nearly 600,000 jobs with robots. This is the same company that has employed millions of warehouse workers over the past two decades, built an army of contract drivers, and pioneered the use of technology to recruit, monitor, and manage employees.

Amazon is preparing for major changes

Conversations with various people and looking at the company's internal strategy documents have revealed that Amazon executives believe that there is now a need for a major change in the company's workplace and that is the use of robots in place of employees.

What is the company's plan?

Amazon's US workforce has more than tripled to nearly 1.2 million since 2018. But Amazon's automation team hopes the company can avoid hiring more than 160,000 people in the US by 2027. This will save Amazon about 30 cents on every item it picks, packs, and delivers.

6 lakh jobs at Amazon are in danger.

Last year, executives expressed hope to the Amazon board that robotic automation would help the company avoid adding employees in the US in the coming years, while selling twice as many products by 2033.

This would mean Amazon would not need to hire more than 600,000 people. The documents indicate that the ultimate goal of Amazon's robotics team is to automate 75 percent of tasks.


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