Amazon burns through workers so quickly that executives are worried they'll run out of people to employ, according to a new report

https://www.businessinsider.com ^ | Jun 15, 2021 | Ben Gilbert

[Enterprise]

Amazon has been hiring hundreds of thousands of workers for roles in its warehouses, which it calls fulfillment centers, but those employees have been quitting almost as fast as they can be hired, according to a huge report from The New York Times published on Tuesday.

Many of the over 350,000 workers Amazon hired from July to October stayed with the company "just days or weeks," the report said.

[Enterprise]

[a fool in paradise]

too big to fail

more billions for bezos

[faucetman]

Nobody wants to WORK anymore.

[FreedomPoster]

[GreyFriar]

sounds like they have a definite “people problem.” And to me folks quitting as fast as they are hired shows the company needs to examine their work requirements and why so many are quitting.

[FirstFlaBn]

150% annual turnover. That sounds like some ETO infantry division in WWII.

[Dalberg-Acton]

Business Insider is suspect. As bad as CNN.

[wally_bert]

Send in the robots!

[joma89]

I suggest folks stop buying from amazon. Plenty of small buisness out there.

[ASOC]

BINGO.

They, as I understand it, treat people at least as badly as some of the Big Box stores - have to clock out to use the head, is just one example.

Offer a crap wage and slave-owner policies and folks will quickly find something better.

[EvilCapitalist]

I’m 41, and have worked through the entire scamdemic. Some people have better work ethics than other people.

[ckilmer]

Soon enough, they’ll have robots replace all the people in the warehouses.

[BiglyCommentary]

Maybe Bezos uses the CHICOM employee model, running them into the ground.

[Seruzawa]

amazon workers report in:

[Alberta's Child]

A while back there were some outlandish media reports about Amazon warehouse workers peeing in bottles on the job because they couldn’t take bathroom breaks.

I laughed those reports off, but then some time later an Amazon representative publicly admitted that the stories were probably accurate.

I wouldn’t care if every Amazon facility burned to the ground overnight.

[wally_bert]

A certain mid western based electronic recycling and resale branch in SC had about the same turnover. I lived it.

At the time, there wasn’t much else. It was the time of the wun.

[escapefromboston]

Seems like an easy problem to fix.

[SaxxonWoods]

So, keep the border open?

[Enterprise]

I was thinking the same.

[butlerweave]

Some of the packages I’ve received from Amazon were packed by monkeys I think