As Amazon Adds Robot Workers, Retail Jobs Fall

A Quartz report said Amazon could be destroying more jobs than it generates, thanks to the addition of more robot employees. To say that Amazon is a major employer in the world would be stating the obvious -- the Jeff Bezos-owned company employs more than a million people. In fact, in the last year alone, the company added about a quarter of a million employees to its workforce. Perhaps, the best indicator of Amazon's significance as a bulk employer is the fact that 238 American cities are competing with each other to become home to Amazon's second headquarters, which is expected to generate 50,000 more jobs. That rosy picture aside, Quartz discovered, in 2017 there were a whopping 170,000 fewer retail jobs in Amazon-linked industries including grocery stores, clothing stores and bookstores, compared to the previous year.