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I consider automation to be part of "economy of scale". I don't think salary levels are necessarily the chief way Amazon squeezes their workers harder than com
by Jolter 6y ago
I consider automation to be part of "economy of scale".
I don't think salary levels are necessarily the chief way Amazon squeezes their workers harder than competitors - you're right that their minimum wage in the US is higher than the law mandates - but I would also love to see evidence of what their competition is paying. I'd bet they're not on the federal minimum wage, either!
It's not all automation though! Amazon is notorious for extreme work pressure. Too few and too short breaks, for example. This will absolutely not fly in Sweden. Not adapting properly to COVID-19 is another example of putting profits before working conditions.
- UK-Al05 6y agoI don't think amazon will have problem with this as long as the competition play by the same rules. If its the same rules, amazon will just use its huge amount of capital investment to gain those advantages instead. As it does now. In fact it will in Amazons advantage to raise conditions for entire country if it can. The problem comes when governments intervene to disadvantage foreign companies over native companies to provide an advantage.