Amazon To Replace 6,00,000 Workers With Robots In This Country: All You Need To Know Right Now

All the tech giants in the industry are currently moving at a pretty fast pace towards automation. Whether it is about AI adoption or just replacing humans with robots, most of the organizations are switching

the way jobs are being done. And the latest in the list is Amazon. According to a report by The New York Times, Amazon is planning to deploy robots for more than 600,000 jobs for which the company had to hire in the US by 2033. The documents suggested that Amazon's robotics team is working on automating 75 per cent of the entire operations at the firm and bid adieu to around 1,60,000 roles that will be supposed to be filled by 2027. In terms of finances, it is being said that the company will be saving around 30 cents on every item that Amazon warehouses and delivers to consumers. In total, the automation of multiple tasks is projected to save $12.6 billion from 2025 to 2027.Also Read: What Led To The 15-Hour AWS Outage — And Could It Happen Again? Until now, Amazon has been taking some major steps to maintain its good corporate citizen image, and this will also help the company in prepping up for the possible backlash from the automation moves that are ready to pull on a scale so big that it will affect more than half a million jobs. Moreover, Amazon as a company is taking part in community projects aggressively, along with avoiding the usage of terms like AI and Automation. Instead, the first is playing smart by using terms like cobot, which means a robot that works alongside humans.

How Amazon Responded To The Same?

Amazon said in a statement to NYT that the leaked documents show half-truth and don't actually show the overall hiring strategy of Amazon. And the company also refuted the claims of officials being asked to avoid specific terms while referring to robotics. However, Daron Acemoglu said, 'Nobody else has the same incentive as Amazon to find the way to automate. Once they work out how to do this profitably, it will spread to others, too.' He further said that if Amazon achieves the goal of automation, then 'one of the biggest employers in the United States will become a net job destroyer, not a net job creator.'