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They're comparing 12 weeks of warehouse work to revenue per hour. Why twelve weeks? It still makes no sense.
by skrebbel 8y ago
They're comparing 12 weeks of warehouse work to revenue per hour. Why twelve weeks? It still makes no sense.
- Dylan16807 8y agoYou have to use some amount of time to get a number measured in dollars. What amount of time do you want to use?
- celticninja 8y agoThink of it like this, 12 weeks of extra labour cost is offset by 17.7 revenue hours, you could also say 1 weeks extra labour cost is the equivalent of just under 1.5 revenue hours.
- shimon 8y agoJust trying to put some reasonable bounds on this estimate. I assumed 12 weeks is "the holiday shopping season" where Amazon has a lot of extra workers who would benefit. And I guessed 250k of them getting $3 raises. You could also guess at the total cost in other ways, many of which would be superior. The overall goal of these lazy estimates is to understand how significant a cost this is for a company like Amazon. Could activists have hoped for more? Are other companies, for whom the costs would be felt quite differently, likely to offer something similar?
- developer2 8y ago12 weeks is (approximately) a business quarter. Corporate finances are most commonly aggregated across a quarterly schedule.