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Amazon has a Big Brother system that tracks and fires unproductive workers
Posted on 4/27/19 at 9:35 am
Posted on 4/27/19 at 9:35 am
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Amazon’s demanding culture of worker productivity has been revealed in multiple investigations. But a new report indicates that the company doesn’t just track worker productivity at its warehouses – it also has a system that can automatically fire them.
Amazon has fired more than 300 workers, citing productivity, at a single facility in Baltimore in a single year (August 2017 through September 2018)
...Amazon’s system tracks a metric called “time off task,” meaning how much time workers pause or take breaks, The Verge reported. It has been previously reported that some workers feel so pressured that they don’t take bathroom breaks.
...If the system determines the employee is failing to meet production targets, it can automatically issue warnings and terminate them without a supervisor’s intervention, although Amazon said that a human supervisor can override the system. The company also said it provides training to those who don’t meet their production goals.
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Wait until they start selling this technology to other businesses. Is this the beginning of the end for TD?
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Posted on 4/27/19 at 9:38 am to TigerinATL
Just begging for the creation of new, modern day unions.
Posted on 4/27/19 at 9:39 am to TigerinATL
How much time off task does the Baltimore workforce want?
Posted on 4/27/19 at 9:40 am to TigerinATL
They better hope it doesn’t fire more women or black people
This post was edited on 4/27/19 at 9:45 am
Posted on 4/27/19 at 9:40 am to TigerinATL
Damn, I'd be fricked.
Posted on 4/27/19 at 9:41 am to TigerinATL
I imagine you have to be a complete failure to get fired by the system and the supervisors were happy they didn’t have to fire these people themselves.
Posted on 4/27/19 at 9:41 am to TigerinATL
I'd be fine with being tracked. However, I'd want a much shorter week. I can honestly do my job in 20 hours a week.
Posted on 4/27/19 at 9:42 am to TigerinATL
Gilded age 2.0
Posted on 4/27/19 at 9:42 am to Draconian Sanctions
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Gilded age 2.0
Posted on 4/27/19 at 9:43 am to TigerinATL
my old drug dealer used to work at amazon and he said the working conditions are pretty rough
Posted on 4/27/19 at 9:43 am to East Coast Band
This sounds like a frigging great system to me.
Yep, they've supported being lazy on the job forever.
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Just begging for the creation of new, modern day unions.
Yep, they've supported being lazy on the job forever.
Posted on 4/27/19 at 9:44 am to TheChosenOne
I just want to know what their productions goals actually are. If they’re so unrealistic that people are truly speeding through neighborhoods, pissing in bottles, etc it’s a problem. If it’s just people fricking off on TD 4 hours a day I don’t have a problem with it.
Posted on 4/27/19 at 9:44 am to TigerinATL
May be in the minority but I think that's bullshite. Churning workers like that isn't cool. I can't imagine what the pressure would feel like to constantly be tracked by GPS in a warehouse environment like that. Really starting to abhor our American model of consumer consumption overall. Nobody needs the shite we all buy for the most part.
Posted on 4/27/19 at 9:45 am to stuntman
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This sounds like a frigging great system to me.
Could very well be, depends on how strict it really is. Most of these kinds of articles are overly dramatized.
Posted on 4/27/19 at 9:46 am to TigerinATL
I don't think the system is working because I ain't getting any of my shite in 2 days anymore. It's either that or UPS, etc., needs the system too.
Posted on 4/27/19 at 9:48 am to TigerinATL
Amazon is horrible to work for but they pay well. I think a lot of people around here deal with it to get them on the resume and then move on.
Posted on 4/27/19 at 9:50 am to TigerinATL
If the standards are too strict, they’ll have trouble keeping solid workers and the company will suffer.
If the standards are about right, the lazy will be pissed and unemployed, and the company will do well.
Posted on 4/27/19 at 9:51 am to TigerinATL
Learn to code?
Posted on 4/27/19 at 9:51 am to TigerinATL
Fast food industry needs an adaptation of this system. But instead of tracking breaks, it needs to fire employees for working at the speed of a sloth.
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