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I don't understand why they don't just improve working conditions. Why don't they improve compensation and make it more human for the humans involved? It's not
by sadness2 7y ago
I don't understand why they don't just improve working conditions. Why don't they improve compensation and make it more human for the humans involved? It's not going to make their business less scalable. It's just going to lift the cost curve up a few notches. Amazon can definitely handle that additional sunk cost, and the good (and actually deserved) PR they would get from that would be enormous. Not to mention it's the right thing to do
- thatoneuser 7y agoBecause money. Paying all of their workers even $1 an hour more would cost more than some well planted shills. Plus even if they paid the $1 more an hour, the voices condemning their working conditions wouldn't decrease anyway. Amazon has a permanent image issue regardless of how they actually treat workers (it's not good). I think this is probably the most practical approach.
- jjeaff 7y agoHow much would they need to raise wages to make it livable? At 650k employees, $1 an hour raise, assuming no overtime, equates to about $1.3B plus some for payroll taxes. So it might not be exactly a drop in the bucket, even for Amazon.