With the introduction of the machines into the workplace, Amazon has dramatically slowed its hiring of human workers. The shift is noted in the company's newer warehouses where "smaller employee footprints and help us deliver with greater speed,” per a company spokesperson to the media outlet.

Amazon will soon have as many robots as humans plugging away at its warehouses, the Wall Street Journal reports. And at this rate, it won't be long until the flesh and blood employees are downright outnumbered.