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https://www.vox.com/recode/23170900/leaked-amazon-memo-warehouses-hiring-shortage [www vox com]
Leaked #Amazon internal memo predicts that their warehouse network will run out of prospective employees to hire within two years.
> Raising wages and increasing warehouse automation are two of the six "levers" Amazon could pull to delay this labor crisis by a few years, but only a series of sweeping changes to how the company does business and manages its employees will significantly alter the timeline, Amazon staff predicted.
> "If we continue business as usual, Amazon will deplete the available labor supply in the US network by 2024," the research, which hasn’t previously been reported, says.
Their prospective employees do not include all adults.
> Amazon’s internal report calculated the available pool of workers based on characteristics like income levels and a household’s proximity to current or planned Amazon facilities; the pool does not include the entire US adult population.
They burn through a lot of staff because of their pay scales and working conditions. From this and other articles, it sounds like Amazon management believes very much in the "Theory X" view, which is that employees are lazy and have to be forced to work, and that trying to create a better workplace and better jobs to make employees happier is wasted time and money.
> The leaked internal findings also serve as a cautionary tale for other employers who seek to emulate the Amazon Way of management, which emphasizes worker productivity over just about everything else and churns through the equivalent of its entire front-line workforce year after year.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/06/15/us/amazon-workers.html [www nytimes com]
https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/22977660/amazon-warehouses-work-injuries-retail-labor [www vox com]
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They mention that the IE in !SoCal is a problem for them. However, I am hearing that some of that area's local high schools are sending a big chunk of their graduates (and non-graduates who aged out) to #Inland_Empire ${NASDAQ[AMZN]} warehouses.
I sincerely hope that the IE job market forces them to change, with better-paid unionized employees and no more need to piss in a bottle to avoid being docked for non-productivity.
But above all, I want the national environment (social and legal) to change, so that such behavior is curbed by threat of long and expensive lawsuits, breakup orders, fines, and large numbers of people refusing to work for them.