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Amazon's Robot Takeover

Amazon's Robot Takeover

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Over the past two decades, no company has done more to shape the
American workplace than Amazon. In its ascent to become the
nation’s second-largest employer, it has developed an aggressive
corporate culture and pioneered using technology to hire, monitor
and manage workers.

Now, interviews and a cache of internal strategy documents reveal
that Amazon executives believe their company is on the cusp of
their next big workplace shift: replacing more than half a
million jobs with robots.

Karen Weise takes us inside Amazon’s push toward automation and
the implications for the company and potentially for the broader
economy.

Guest: Karen Weise, a technology correspondent
for The New York Times, based in Seattle.

Background reading:

Amazon plans to replace more than half a million jobs with
robots.

Meet Sparrow, Cardinal and Proteus, the robots powering
Amazon’s automation.

Photo: Emily Kask for The New York Times

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