Amazon Plans to Replace More Than Half a Million Jobs With Robots

[Anonymous]

Amazon, America’s second largest employer has plans to replace jobs with robots. I guess they won’t need to ask the robots to pee in a bottle to save time on breaks.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/technology/inside-amazons-plans-to-replace-workers-with-robots.html

Amazon Plans to Replace More Than Half a Million Jobs With Robots

Internal documents show the company that changed how people shop has a far-reaching plan to automate 75 percent of its operations.

Now, interviews and a cache of internal strategy documents viewed by The New York Times reveal that Amazon executives believe the company is on the cusp of its next big workplace shift: replacing more than half a million jobs with robots.

[Anonymous]

The company that changed how people shop will soon not have many shoppers left. People need this thing called money to shop.

Robots don’t shop.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The company that changed how people shop will soon not have many shoppers left. People need this thing called money to shop.

Robots don’t shop.

Top earners are pushing consumerism along. They don’t need these poor Amazon warehouse employees anymore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The company that changed how people shop will soon not have many shoppers left. People need this thing called money to shop.

Amazon makes more profit from AWS than e-commerce.

[Anonymous]

Great news for consumers and amazon shareholders.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The company that changed how people shop will soon not have many shoppers left. People need this thing called money to shop.

Amazon makes more profit from AWS than e-commerce.

Source? Last time I checked, Amazon does a lot of creative accounting to obfuscate the details to hide the extent they influence pricing for both buyers and sellers, and to maintain the idea that they're a high growth tech company to keep the stock going.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The company that changed how people shop will soon not have many shoppers left. People need this thing called money to shop.

Robots don’t shop.

Top earners are pushing consumerism along. They don’t need these poor Amazon warehouse employees anymore.

I am not even top earner and I don’t shop on Amazon for cheap crap.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The company that changed how people shop will soon not have many shoppers left. People need this thing called money to shop.

Amazon makes more profit from AWS than e-commerce.

Source? Last time I checked, Amazon does a lot of creative accounting to obfuscate the details to hide the extent they influence pricing for both buyers and sellers, and to maintain the idea that they're a high growth tech company to keep the stock going.

Are you the lady who screams what numbers? Amazon publishes their annual report on their website with revenues breakdown by business unit. Do you know how to find it?

[Anonymous]

This sounds like simple, old school economics. Maturing businesses (the warehouse / logistics segment of Amazon) strive to increase volume and reduce costs. Labor is one of the biggest costs in running a warehouse operation and Amazon is just doing what corporations have been doing for over 100 years - reduce labor costs, often through mechanization.

Despite our wishes, corporations are not social welfare organizations that try to make the world a better place by, for instance, providing good paying jobs. Corporations exist to return shareholder value. Full stop.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Amazon, America’s second largest employer has plans to replace jobs with robots. I guess they won’t need to ask the robots to pee in a bottle to save time on breaks.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/technology/inside-amazons-plans-to-replace-workers-with-robots.html

Amazon Plans to Replace More Than Half a Million Jobs With Robots

Internal documents show the company that changed how people shop has a far-reaching plan to automate 75 percent of its operations.

Now, interviews and a cache of internal strategy documents viewed by The New York Times reveal that Amazon executives believe the company is on the cusp of its next big workplace shift: replacing more than half a million jobs with robots.

companies have been using robots for a long time. and will continue to expand.

if we had elites that would help their fellow citizens , we could adapt to this trend.

the problem is not the robots, the problem is US styled capitalism and our culture of everyone for themselves. our elites have no morals and have created the income inequalities.

look at how H1B and OPT have been expanded by our political elites, and no one cares about the negatives impacts on the workers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This sounds like simple, old school economics. Maturing businesses (the warehouse / logistics segment of Amazon) strive to increase volume and reduce costs. Labor is one of the biggest costs in running a warehouse operation and Amazon is just doing what corporations have been doing for over 100 years - reduce labor costs, often through mechanization.

Despite our wishes, corporations are not social welfare organizations that try to make the world a better place by, for instance, providing good paying jobs. Corporations exist to return shareholder value. Full stop.

LOL. Remember when the conservatives called them “job creators” and made them all sound like humanitarians???

[Anonymous]

People hated Amazon when it was a top US employer. Now it hates Amazon because it’s going to be less of a US employer. Either way, people are going to hate Amazon. Whatever.

[Anonymous]

Robots? Child’s play. The data center boom in Loudoun County will be the real job killer in a matter of years.

[Anonymous]

Will the billionaires then look to get rid of poor people when they no longer have a use for them?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Will the billionaires then look to get rid of poor people when they no longer have a use for them?

What do you think they are doing right now with antivax campaign?