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I came to similar conclusion of transparency but with completely different reasoning. I see this as amazon trying to completely eliminate responsibility from s
by grayfaced 5y ago
I came to similar conclusion of transparency but with completely different reasoning. I see this as amazon trying to completely eliminate responsibility from supervisors and lower management. Does amazon really think they can discover new unknown faults in the business with automation alone?
Suppose I reverse engineer how the system works and find a way to steal, but have that loss attributed to different workers. How will that get discovered? how many honest workers will get fired with no recourse?
You can't replace trust with automation. You still need subjective critical thinking. If the algorithm can find the bad apples, it should be capable of producing metrics showing why they're underperforming to be reviewed by supervisor.
- asteroidbelt 5y agoGood point about supervisors and middle managers (or rather low managers). I think it is possible to have 10 effective supervisors, but not 1000. 50 of these 1000 start making subjective decisions (based on sex, race, having hungry children and other prejudices), and the whole system will start working much less efficiently than ML, and it will be worse for both Amazon (worse quality) and hard working delivery men (being fired because of supervision misjudgment).