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It's based on 1 year's worth of investigative research. The guy is publishing a book. So, no, this isn't some yellow journalism hit piece.
by l33tbro 8y ago
It's based on 1 year's worth of investigative research. The guy is publishing a book.
So, no, this isn't some yellow journalism hit piece.
- adventured 8y agoAmazon has about 600,000 employees now. I'd be surprised if workers aren't routinely dying every day just from random chance given that scale. That's larger than US Army's active force. Even if 500 warehouse workers (one in a thousand) passed out in a given year from exhaustion, given the numbers we're talking about, that wouldn't imply anything. In an office setting, one in a thousand employees will pass out randomly in a given year from a problem derived from their own health. It takes a pretty epic data set and study to demonstrate a meaningful frequency when you're talking about hundreds of thousands of employees. I've seen no evidence in any of the articles spit out by the media that workers are regularly being worked to exhaustion. Skepticism is warranted, given there's a lot more money to be made by sensationalism, in selling books or driving clicks.