Amazon , the second largest employer in the U.S. after Walmart , could slash hundreds of thousands of jobs by replacing human workers with robots over the next decade, according to a report based on internal documents.

The potential strategy, reported by The New York Times , comes from Amazon’s automation team, which provided figures suggesting the company could conceivably avoid hiring more than 160,000 people in the United States it would otherwise require by 2027.

The retail colossus has previously suggested that robotic automation will enable the company to expand its sales to twice as many products by 2033, without increasing its U.S. workforce.

The cache of documents, along with interviews carried out by the Times, suggests that such an overhaul would result in more

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