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Yevgeny Demkivskyi Mezha.Media news writer and geek. I write about technology, movies and games. Maybe about games with a little more passion.
Amazon’s strategy assumes that about 75% of the company’s operations will be automated. Already by 2027, automation will make it possible to avoid hiring approximately 160,000 workers, and by 2033 – more than 600,000. This could cut costs by 30 cents from every item sold and save about $12.6 billion between 2025 and 2027 alone.
Amazon already uses more than a million robots in its warehouses and is testing biped robots, including Agility Robotics’ Digit, which can walk and work alongside humans. At the same time, the documents show that the company fears a negative reaction to job losses. To mitigate the reputational blow, internal communications suggested avoiding the terms “automation” or “artificial intelligence”, replacing them with more neutral ones – “advanced technologies” or “cobots” (assistant robots).
In response to The New York Times publication, Amazon said the documents did not reflect the company’s overall HR strategy, and management was not instructed to avoid certain language.
Nobel laureate in economics Daron Acemoglu said in a comment to the newspaper that the successful implementation of this plan can radically change the labor market.
“If Amazon finds a profitable way to automate at scale, it will send a signal to other companies. In that case, one of the largest employers in the US will become a source of mass layoffs.”
”, — write: www.pravda.com.ua
Yevgeny Demkivskyi Mezha.Media news writer and geek. I write about technology, movies and games. Maybe about games with a little more passion.
Amazon’s strategy assumes that about 75% of the company’s operations will be automated. Already by 2027, automation will make it possible to avoid hiring approximately 160,000 workers, and by 2033 – more than 600,000. This could cut costs by 30 cents from every item sold and save about $12.6 billion between 2025 and 2027 alone.
Amazon already uses more than a million robots in its warehouses and is testing biped robots, including Agility Robotics’ Digit, which can walk and work alongside humans. At the same time, the documents show that the company fears a negative reaction to job losses. To mitigate the reputational blow, internal communications suggested avoiding the terms “automation” or “artificial intelligence”, replacing them with more neutral ones – “advanced technologies” or “cobots” (assistant robots).
In response to The New York Times publication, Amazon said the documents did not reflect the company’s overall HR strategy, and management was not instructed to avoid certain language.
Nobel laureate in economics Daron Acemoglu said in a comment to the newspaper that the successful implementation of this plan can radically change the labor market.
“If Amazon finds a profitable way to automate at scale, it will send a signal to other companies. In that case, one of the largest employers in the US will become a source of mass layoffs.”