In the past eight years there have been hundreds of accidents involving Amazon vehicles, including at least six deaths, which were documented in BuzzFeed News investigation in 2019. It is impossible to complete a route, and take your breaks, and be back to the station in time.” “I do feel like the workload is unreasonable,” says another driver interviewed by the Guardian, who asked to remain anonymous. (They also noted psychological pressures and a deterioration of their normal sleep schedules.) According to a survey of workers in a Long Island Amazon warehouse, 42% reported physical pain in their day-to-day duties – usually in the feet and lower back. “I ended up having a normal 200-plus stop day on Easter Sunday. “Amazon constantly reminds us they put profits over their workers,” he says. “I was logging over 120 flights of stairs on my Fitbit,” he tells the Guardian. He is frequently saddled with shifts that force him to deliver to “70 separate three-story buildings” with more than 350 packages. Jacob, who joined Amazon two years ago, says he has logged a total of 30,000 miles, and 400 routes. It probably makes just as much sense to get it to you efficiently.”įor Amazon workers, this means working at an extraordinary pace. Isn’t that a little gluttonous? Or, as M Sanjayan, CEO of Conservation International, put it in an interview with NPR: “You don’t need a pair of socks to get to you swiftly. That operation is buoyed by a worldwide logistics team which rumbles all day and night. Do we want to go back to the office? Are we satisfied with our current employment situation? And is the endless cycle of cardboard arriving at our doorsteps putting an undue strain on the planet, on our infrastructure, and on the human spirit?Īmazon Prime ships about 1.6m packages a day. But as we approach a return to a more normal life, many of us are investigating the various habits and proclivities we unconsciously established during Covid. During that period of lockdowns, Amazon’s quick delivery became a lifeline for many people.
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