Last year, only a third of Amazon’s new hires stayed with the company for more than 90 days before quitting, being fired, or getting laid off
The report, which is based off internal research papers, slide decks, and spreadsheets from Amazon, claims that workers are twice as likely to leave by choice, rather than because they were laid off or fired. It also says that the issue is widespread throughout the company, not just with warehouse workers; from entry level roles all the way up to vice presidents, the lowest attrition rate for one of the company’s 10 tiers of employees was almost 70 percent, with the highest reaching a staggering 81.3 percent.
I honestly though this is their hiring philosophy keep rotating ppl in and out. That way no one needs a raise, or benefits.
They use some algorithmic tracking that makes working there completely unsustainable. Anybody that stays there for too long is probably addicted to painkillers - A BeLabored podcast episode talked about how an employee couldn’t use tylenol because she developed a tolerance.
I’ve worked in construction for years and Amazon was the first job where I felt obligated to bring some kind of painkiller with me. They even dispense packs of them in the employee supplies vending machines.
They even dispense packs of them in the employee supplies vending machines
what the fuck
Wouldn’t you eventually just burn through your entire labor pool? Like how long would that even be sustainable?
I think at the very least they’ve burned though their “goodwill” so to speak, at least anecdotally amongst people in warehousing in my area. I’ve worked in warehouses for a while, Amazon opened a warehouse close to where I live a few years ago. The opinion pretty quickly went from “Can’t wait till Amazon opens up here so we can finally get paid” to “It’s good you just gotta keep your pace up” to “FUCK AMAZON AND FUCK BEZOS FOREVER”
Wouldn’t you eventually just burn through your entire labor pool? Like how long would that even be sustainable?
Yes, this is already becoming an issue for them. There’s leaked company documents discussing it
It is the philosophy, I was at a warehouse for about a year and there were I believe two people left who started around the same time as me, if I had to guess 10% stay past 6 months, 5% past a year. Unless you live in a low cost of living area where other businesses are paying federal minimum wage there’s not much keeping anyone there. They try dangling a carrot saying you could make assistant manager within a year but they’re much more likely to hire people with 4 year degrees than promote from within, all of the assistant managers had been there for a few years minimum waiting for a management position to open up, which start at like 21/hr.
