“Amazon is facing a looming crisis: It could run out of people to hire in its US warehouses by 2024, according to leaked Amazon internal research from mid-2021 that Recode reviewed.”
Amazon’s own models had it exhausting the Phoenix labor pool by the end of 2021. The cause isn’t a worker shortage. It is turnover so high that Amazon burns through every nearby person willing to take the job. Higher wages and automation only delay the date, by Amazon’s own math. The spokesperson didn’t dispute a word of it.