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Moreover, Amazon is a global company with 500,000+ employees. Painting the entire company with this brush is poor analysis. If this portrayal is representative
by 11thEarlOfMar 9y ago
Moreover, Amazon is a global company with 500,000+ employees. Painting the entire company with this brush is poor analysis.
If this portrayal is representative of this distribution center, it could be the result of a general manager whose incentive bonuses motivate him/her to be strict about how pickers spend their time and grant strikes even for legitimate medical excuses.
Or it could be true that all of Amazon is this way. In that case, however, this one circumstance is insufficient to draw that conclusion.
- sn41 9y agoI suspect it is a pervasive part of Amazon's work culture. They bought Whole Foods, IIRC, and there were news articles about how that went: http://www.grubstreet.com/2018/02/whole-foods-inventory-system-reportedly-making-employees-cry-at-work.html http://www.grubstreet.com/2018/02/whole-foods-inventory-syst...
- wenc 9y agoThe problem identified in the article seems to point to the OTS inventory system, which was a Whole Foods initiative. Amazon doesn't seem to know much about it (which may partly be the problem), but it isn't evidence against Amazon per se.