Amazon's internal projections about automation are unusually blunt: instead of simply trimming headcount at the margins, the ...

Pushed to use artificial intelligence, software developers at the e-commerce giant say they must work faster and have less time to think. Others welcome the shift. By Noam Scheiber Noam Scheiber has ...

Artificial intelligence that makes humans more efficient and robots that make them less necessary: That’s the future Amazon.com is building in its e-commerce fulfillment business. The retail giant ...

Dehumanized and disposable is how Amazon workers in Poland, Germany and France described how they felt working in the online retail giant's warehouses. "You are no longer Julie or Ludovic, you are ...

Amazon, the second-largest employer in the US, announced plans in October to hire 250,000 workers across the United States for the holiday season, including warehouse workers and drivers. The jobs are ...

Amazon is the second-largest employer in the world, with 1.5 million workers. A new report shows that Amazon will not have to hire 600,000 people by 2033, thanks to robots and automation. Amazon ...

Amazon’s Pegasus robotic drive system retrieves finished packages from employees and sorts them for delivery. Pegasus is one of three kinds of robots Amazon uses in its warehouses. (Photo courtesy of ...