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Amazon, which hooked shoppers on getting just about anything delivered in two days, announced Thursday that it will soon promise one-day delivery for its U.S. Prime members on most items.
The company hopes that cutting delivery times in half will make its $119-a year Prime membership more attractive, since every other online store offers free deliveries in two days. Amazon also cant compete with Walmart and Target, where ordering online and picking up at a store is becoming more popular with shoppers.
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Critics say those fulfillment center workers face strenuous conditions: workers are pressed to make rate, with some packing hundreds of boxes per hour, and losing their job if they dont move fast enough. Youve always got somebody right behind you whos ready to take your job, says Stacy Mitchell, co-director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and a prominent Amazon critic.
Documents obtained by The Verge show those productivity firings are far more common than outsiders realize. In a signed letter last year, an attorney representing Amazon said the company fired hundreds of employees at a single facility between August of 2017 and September 2018 for failing to meet productivity quotas. A spokesperson for the company said that, over that time, roughly 300 full-time associates were terminated for inefficiency
The documents also show a deeply automated tracking and termination process. Amazons system tracks the rates of each individual associates productivity, according to the letter, and automatically generates any warnings or terminations regarding quality or productivity without input from supervisors. (Amazon says supervisors are able to override the process.)
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Burn 'em out, toss 'em out, Do without!
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Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)Until they fully automate.
They simply dont care.
Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)defacto7
(13,485 posts)If you have a gripe with Amazon as I do, stop voting for them!
Demonaut
(8,917 posts)automated judge and jury, no better than the saudi's
USALiberal
(10,877 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,202 posts)Elayne_BFI4
(1 post)Full disclosure, I work for Amazon. I just wanted to come and clear some things up. Yes, we have a matrix that we all work off of. Rates, Time Off Task, Errors, ect. What this article doesn't tell you is, how they have to review every single thing that comes across the computer. It's ultimately up to the managers on who gets fired, or who gets just a slap on the wrist. As for if this is going to affect me, nah, I pay attention to what I do. Even if it means I move slower than some.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,625 posts)Thanks for clarifying the situation.
Hope you get to keep your job!
canetoad
(17,161 posts)Are you part of a damage control team?