BusinessInsider Ben Gilbert6 hours ago Amazon burns through hourly employees, a major New York Times investigation found. Employee churn is so high that some Amazon execs are reportedly worried about running out of people. The company has been on a hiring spree to keep up with increased shopping during the pandemic.
JFK8(the supersize warehouse on Staten Island that served as the retailer’s critical pipeline to New York City)’s thousands of workers cycle in and out nearly 24 hours a day.Dave Sanders for The New York Times 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. JFK8 is the size of 15 football fields.Chang W. Lee/The New York Times Hourly employees had a turnover rate of about 150% every year, data reviewed by The Times indicated. That led some Amazon executives to worry about running out of hirable employees in the US, the report said. Amazon went on an extended hiring spree in 2020 as it attempted to keep up with a massive spike in demand during coronavirus lockdowns. As Americans increasingly turned to Amazon for things like toiletries and groceries, the company repeatedly touted major hiring pushes. By May 2021, Amazon was even offering $1,000 signing bonuses to new employees — partially a symptom of hiring issues that employers are facing in a variety of industries, and potentially of Amazon's remarkably high turnover rate. “We work to figure out the impossible problems,” Ms. Weishalla said.Amessé Photography Chris Smalls led a protest in March 2020 that attracted national attention.Spencer Platt/Getty Images Stowing items on a robotic shelf at JFK8.Chang W. Lee/The New York Times One former Amazon manager who oversaw human-resources efforts focused on warehouse workers compared the situation with worker churn at Amazon warehouses to the use of fossil fuels. "We keep using them, even though we know we're slowly cooking ourselves," he told The Times. Amazon representatives didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
Amazon burns through hourly employees, a major New York Times investigation found.
Employee churn is so high that some Amazon execs are reportedly worried about running out of people.
The company has been on a hiring spree to keep up with increased shopping during the pandemic.
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.
Hourly employees had a turnover rate of about 150% every year, data reviewed by The Times indicated. That led some Amazon executives to worry about running out of hirable employees in the US, the report said.
Amazon went on an extended hiring spree in 2020 as it attempted to keep up with a massive spike in demand during coronavirus lockdowns. As Americans increasingly turned to Amazon for things like toiletries and groceries, the company repeatedly touted major hiring pushes.
By May 2021, Amazon was even offering $1,000 signing bonuses to new employees — partially a symptom of hiring issues that employers are facing in a variety of industries, and potentially of Amazon's remarkably high turnover rate.
Amazon representatives didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
随便买个房子，第二年卖掉，就是十几二十万。 还上个什么班哦。全民炒股炒房。
说明物流只能政府干
亚马逊就是美国真正的政府
再躺下去通货膨胀上来了，发福利的速度也赶不上房租吃饭的暴涨速度，到时候咋办。
只要脸皮厚，发福利的速度怎么可能赶不上通胀，问题只是谁买单而已
这两个速度比较的算术题超纲了，美国大学都不会教。
只要躺着吃福利的人数够多，足够压过被吸血的中产选票，政府就能持续收割韭菜中产，良性循环。
慷慨个p。华人大妈真有病。女经理不管干嘛都是剥削。资本家干嘛都是慷慨。
所以应该资本家多发工资，资本家买单。
呵呵，老套路了，“我们要给大资本家加税，要割大资本家的肉”。
最恐慌的永远是中产阶级， 无产阶级没啥可损失的。
中产阶级可以躺平。
资本家可以跑路。
全自动不可能, 很多活虽简单但需要人工干,. 亚马逊雇佣的仓库员工总数相当于一个美国中等城市总人口,留不住人,不停地招不停地走.
平心而论亚马逊因为大,很多媒体政治势力盯着,其仓库工在蓝领里还算不错的.
属实，那些比亚麻仓库更累钱又少的恐怕是难招到人
留不住人就是给的不够高，或者没有career path。给的好不好是工人决定的不是资本家决定的，工人们都用脚投票。 请不到人还可以limit sales，但是现在资本家人心不足不会走这条路。
加工钱呗。加了在Amazon 买东西多花钱呗。 通货膨胀不就这意思吗。
大家都想少干活多拿钱，钱从哪里来？
收入十万以下的已经被Biden 解放了，呆在家里白吃白喝。 下面轮到十万到二十万的当奴隶了。累死累活一辈子买不起房，赚的全拿去交房租。
嗯，真的，世界上只有CEO涨工钱不会通货膨胀。自从1979年来CEO工资涨了940%，普通工人只涨了12%。Coporation profit一直增加工人工资的增加却落后得多。看来大家得号召CEO们去干仓库和车间工作来遏制通胀了。
https://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-compensation-2018/ https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/ https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2018/08/corporate-profits-versus-labor-income/
我就不信亚麻这些员工能有多少房产股票。
turnover rate大，不能说明是因为stimulus check吧？如果不想工作，一开始就不去，不会工作一个星期再quit吧。 amazon warehouse是covid之前就有很多工人的问题。
政府发了这么多钱，你的股票和房产是不是也因此大涨了？是不是发现在家炒股比给资本家搬砖好太多了?是不是发现卖一套投资房可以好几年不愁吃喝？中产因为这次疫情而受益的可比下产多不知道多少倍。与其谴责下产躺平，不如让资本家多涨点工资，毕竟资本家才是这次疫情最大的受益者！
亚麻配人家15$/小时 要求人家每分钟扫描30个邮包 每小时1800个邮包 超人也干不下来这个活啊 这比卓别林的摩登时代流水线工作量还大
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/feb/05/amazon-workers-protest-unsafe-grueling-conditions-warehouse
As a sorter on the outbound ship dock, her job is to inspect and scan a mandated rate of 1,800 Amazon packages an hour – 30 per minute – that are sent through a chute and transported on a conveyor belt before leaving the facility for delivery.
资本家拿走了99% 穷人拿走1% 现在要求资本家只拿98% 穷人拿2% 这个要求不算过分 我不知道这个网站上为啥那么多人为啥站资本家 中国美国穷人现在都躺平了 不就是下苦力 和不下苦力根本收入上没差别 那我为啥还要干活？
买不起房子的中产比比皆是。自主都买不起。
干嘛要把中产和穷人对立起来呢？ 穷人和中产都该联合起来从富人那里分钱 应该征财富税 身家1亿美元以上开征
现在能在加州买得起学区房的按收入绝对富人了。
等加税估计没戏。大家都躺着呗，不加工资就不干活呗。干了活也买不起房也不去，租个房子赖房租。
就是企业文化问题 实在太狠了，把人当驴使唤。 都不记得疫情刚开始的时候，他们warehouse的大爆发了？