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: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/karen-weise">Karen Weise</a><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/keith-bradsher">,</a> a technology correspondent for The New York Times, based in Seattle.Background reading: <ul><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/technology/inside-amazons-plans-to-replace-workers-with-robots.html" target="_blank">Amazon plans to replace more than half a million jobs with robots</a>.</li><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/technology/amazon-robotics-automation.html">Meet Sparrow, Cardinal and Proteus, the robots powering Amazon’s automation.</a></li></ul>Photo: Emily Kask for The New York TimesFor more information on today’s episode, visit <a href="http://nytimes.com/thedaily?smid=pc-thedaily">nytimes.com/thedaily</a>. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday. 
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