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Amazon wants to use robots to avoid adding over 500,000 new jobs

Amazon wants to use robots to avoid adding over 500,000 new jobs

Update: 2025-10-22
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Amazon believes it can use robots to avoid adding more than half a million jobs in the next eight years, The New York Times reports. NPR's A Martinez speaks to Times reporter Karen Weise.
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Amazon wants to use robots to avoid adding over 500,000 new jobs

Amazon wants to use robots to avoid adding over 500,000 new jobs