“Amazon executives told the board that robotic automation — with the robotics team's ultimate goal of automating 75% of Amazon's operations — could keep the company's U.S. headcount essentially flat through 2033 even as it sells twice as many products, meaning more than 600,000 U.S. jobs it would otherwise have had to fill will not be needed.”
Said Oct 21, 2025Deadline Dec 31, 2033The New York Times investigation of leaked Amazon internal documents, Oct. 21, 2025 (reported by NPR, Oct. 22, 2025)
Amazon's U.S. workforce was about 1.2 million when the documents leaked; the company called the leak 'incomplete and misleading.' Resolvable by 2033 against Amazon's reported U.S. headcount versus unit volume growth.