Amazon Plans to Replace More Than Half a Million Jobs With Robots
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/technology/inside-amazons-plans-to-replace-workers-with-robots.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vE8.60I5.850GcO3rtA31&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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It looks like Amazon is making their next big automation jump over the next few years.
>Amazon plans to copy the Shreveport design in about 40 facilities by the end of 2027, starting with a massive warehouse that just opened in Virginia Beach. And it has begun overhauling old facilities, including one in Stone Mountain near Atlanta.
Article mentions internal documents see them reducing the workforce in each by up to half. I would also argue the title is slightly misleading, about half of the jobs they’re replacing will simply never exist.
>At the Shreveport facility, more than 160 people work as robotics technicians, and they make at least $24.45 an hour. Most of Shreveport’s 2,000 employees are regular hourly workers, whose pay starts at $19.50.
I also didn’t expect how low the starting rate for technicians would be. Only $5 an hour higher than the “regular” workers