Karen Weise

Yeah, so I've been looking into this because covering the company for as long as I've had, I saw this huge growth in their headcount and the number of employees they had.

And then in the past few years, it started essentially plateauing.

So you could tell something was starting to happen behind the scenes.

But I didn't realize how much progress they had made until I got my hands on some internal documents.

And these are the internal strategy documents for the robotics automation team.

It documents sign-offs at the most senior level of the company.

And it really showed the breadth of the ambition that they have, the progress that they see.

And what I found in these documents is that they have plans to avoid hiring more than half a million workers because of using robots.

And big picture, their long-term goal is to automate 75% of their operations.

And it's a really big deal because Amazon's the second biggest private employer in the country.

And they're also just seen as kind of a leader, a flagship employer in the country that really shapes where jobs are heading.

And so I knew that if they were making this progress, other companies would follow.

You're saying this matters far beyond Amazon.

Exactly, yeah.

They are kind of a signature employer of this kind of hourly workforce.

So it's a really big deal much beyond them.

How fast will this happen?

That's a vision for 2033, but that is only with the advancements they currently have and NOAA.

So there's an expectation that it could even kind of improve over time.

You're right.