Amazon: Digital chain gang.

Amazon might be great for customers. For workers, not so much.

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The company routinely pays wages barely above the poverty line, while using intrusive surveillance systems to monitor the workforce, fence them in with elaborate rules, set target times for their warehouse journeys, and then measure whether targets were met. All of this information is made available to management in real time, and if Amazon’s “employee-athletes” fall behind schedule, they receive a Big Brother-like text message pushing them to reach their targets or suffer the consequences. Failure to do so is met with a “three strikes and release” discipline system — being a euphemism for getting sacked.

https://www.salon.com/2018/01/29/ama...-gang_partner/

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