Amazon's leaked documents show it plans to automate 75% of operations by 2033, avoiding 600,000 new hires while doubling output. OpenAI hired over 100 former JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs analysts to train AI for entry-level banking tasks. Both warehouse and white-collar jobs are vulnerable.
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Amazon is replacing 600,000 jobs with robots, and this one move just exposed how the world's biggest companies plan to grow. Leaked internal documents show Amazon plans to automate up to 75% of its operations by 2033, avoiding roughly 600,000 future hires while doubling output. But Amazon is not the only one doing it. OpenAI recently brought on more than 100 former JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs analysts, not to grow its workforce, but to train AI models designed to handle entry-level banking work, revealing that it's not only warehouse workers being replaced, but also entry-level white-collar jobs. We are entering a time when companies will look completely different. Headcount will no longer track success. Productivity per employee will. The real change will come from new companies that build with AI from the start, not add it later. Amazon is showing what that future looks like today. And every leader now has to choose whether to fight that change or learn how to build with it.