Amazon and the Workforce
According to leaked internal documents and reporting from The New York Times, Entrepreneur, and Forbes, Amazon plans to automate up to 75%…
Amazon and the Workforce
According to leaked internal documents and reporting from The New York Times, Entrepreneur, and Forbes, Amazon plans to automate up to 75% of its warehouse operations by 2033. They won’t be firing 600,000 people all at once, but they are planning to not hire them in the first place.
By 2027, Amazon expects to avoid hiring 160,000 new roles thanks to shiny automation saving themselves $12.6 billion in labor costs between 2025 and 2027. That’s about 30 cents saved per item shipped, which, in soulless corporate math, is apparently worth sacrificing the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of people.
They plan to do this through using the “Vulcan” robotic arm that can pick, pack, automated sorting and packaging: Already running circles around the humans who used to do it, and predictive logistics since the algorithm knows what you want before you do.
Amazon’s marketing calls this “the future of fulfillment.”