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Amazon, which has asserted its dominance in retail and the tech industry with its cloud computing services, has turned heads this year with dramatic workforce changes as it invests billions into artificial intelligence.
Amazon is planning to replace more than half a million jobs in the US with robots, according to a new report. Warehouse automation will enable the e-commerce giant to avoid hiring over 600,000 people in the coming years, executives told Amazon’s board in 2024, according to the New York Times.
A mid the wave of hype over artificial intelligence, a growing chorus of fear has sprung around software engineering, where executives are threatening to automate swaths of work. But an ongoing overhaul at America's second-largest private employer has a more immediate warning - already on warehouse floors.
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Internal documents show the company that changed how people shop has a far-reaching plan to automate 75 percent of its operations.
Amazon layoffs just took a futuristic turn. Leaked internal documents suggest the company could replace 600,000 U.S. jobs with robots by 2027 — part of a $12.6 billion automation drive. By 2027, around 160,
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