Amazon is burning out its warehouse workers so quickly that it could run out of labor
Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2024 10:01 am
Although Amazon has recently made efforts to brighten up its somewhat tarnished image as an employer, the shadow of poor working conditions continues to hang over the work at its logistics centres.
While the software giant has hired saudi arabia telephone number data hundreds of thousands of workers to fill warehouse positions , the people it has seen fit to recruit are quitting their jobs at nearly the same rate as they are joining Amazon's ranks.
According to a report published last Tuesday by The New York Times , many of the more than 350,000 workers that the company led by Jeff Bezos hired between July and October of last year lasted in the company only a few days or a few weeks.
Last year, there was a turnover rate of around 150% among staff at Amazon logistics centers , according to the New York newspaper.
Will Amazon's warehouses run empty if the turnover rate continues to climb?
Such a monstrous turnover rate has led some Amazon executives to fear a possible lack of available labor to fill the jobs in the company's warehouses in the United States.
In 2020, Amazon massively expanded its workforce at its logistics centers to cope with the sharp spikes in demand resulting from the coronavirus lockdown .
While the software giant has hired saudi arabia telephone number data hundreds of thousands of workers to fill warehouse positions , the people it has seen fit to recruit are quitting their jobs at nearly the same rate as they are joining Amazon's ranks.
According to a report published last Tuesday by The New York Times , many of the more than 350,000 workers that the company led by Jeff Bezos hired between July and October of last year lasted in the company only a few days or a few weeks.
Last year, there was a turnover rate of around 150% among staff at Amazon logistics centers , according to the New York newspaper.
Will Amazon's warehouses run empty if the turnover rate continues to climb?
Such a monstrous turnover rate has led some Amazon executives to fear a possible lack of available labor to fill the jobs in the company's warehouses in the United States.
In 2020, Amazon massively expanded its workforce at its logistics centers to cope with the sharp spikes in demand resulting from the coronavirus lockdown .