Recently, a report from The New York Times revealed that Amazon is considering automating up to 600,000 jobs in the United States by 2033, according to internal documents obtained by the publication.
The plan outlines that roughly 75% of the company’s operations could become dependent on robots, which would allow Amazon to avoid hiring around 160,000 workers by 2027.
Although the company stated that the leaked materials “do not represent its future hiring intentions,” the shift is significant given the scale of its current workforce, which already exceeds one million employees in the U.S. In fact, at one of its Louisiana facilities, automation has already cut the need for human staff by half.
Could this shift toward automation reshape the labor market?
Certainly, though not without consequences. While Amazon insists it will continue to hire, the scale of its plan suggests that low-skilled jobs could either disappear or be drastically transformed. This change will demand workforce retraining, new skill development, and a broader debate about the role automation will play in the future of employment.
