The New York Times reported that Amazon is planning to replace over half a million workers with robots in the next few years, according to leaked documents.

While Amazon told News 12 that none of its current employees would be impacted, the news has stoked fear and uncertainty among workers.

Leaked documents obtained by the Times alleged that the e-commerce giant had plans not to fill more than 160,000 future positions by 2027.

According to the outlet, those jobs would be replaced with robots, and by 2033, more than 600,000 positions could be replaced by automation.

"Technological advancement isn't necessarily bad. When it's applied in the right way, it can make our jobs safer. It can eliminate the most exhausting tasks. It can generally make work better. The question becomes how it's implemented and who's benefitting from it." Connor Spence, president of the ALU-IBT Local 1 in Staten Island, said.

The ALU IBT Local 1 was one of the first Amazon facilities to unionize. In the face of potential job cuts, they urged workers in surrounding areas, like New Jersey, to start organizing.

"We protect ourselves from the fear that we could be replaced, we could be laid off in large numbers not because the business is going through any kind of turmoil but because they found a way to do things better without us," Spence said.

However, Amazon said the leaked documents have created a misleading narrative and don't represent the company's overall hiring strategy.

Still, employees said the company's hiring strategy, no matter what it is, will have a ripple effect.

"What Amazon is doing is basically dictating the future of work because it's not just how it's impacting us as Amazon workers. What they do echoes across basically the entire U.S," Spence said.