Amazon chews through the average worker in eight months. They need a union | Steven Greenhouse

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• experts on the future of work

• The average Amazon warehouse worker leaves within just eight months

• stress, breakneck pace, constant monitoring and minimal rest breaks.

• voice concern that Amazon’s vaunted algorithms and technologies treat Amazon’s warehouse workers like mindless, unfeeling robots

• having them do the same thing hour after hour after hour.

• And then there are the endless tales from Amazon warehouse workers that the company is so stingy about break time that they often don’t have enough time to go back and forth to the bathroom without getting demerits for exceeding their allotted daily break time.

• Evidently Bezos fails to realize that any company whose workers leave after eight months on average is light years from being Earth’s Best Employer.

• As for being Earth’s Safest Place to Work, Bezos shouldn’t insult workers’ or the public’s intelligence by making such a claim, considering the rate of serious injuries at Amazon’s warehouses in 2020 was nearly twice that at other warehouses across the US.

• By the way, the eight-month average that Amazon workers stay is a piddling one-sixth the average job tenure for America’s 155 million workers.

• Amazon has earned the dubious distinction of replacing Walmart as the nation’s fiercest anti-union employer.

• Indeed, experts on the future of work often voice concern that Amazon’s vaunted algorithms and technologies treat Amazon’s warehouse workers like mindless, unfeeling robots – having them do the same thing hour after hour after hour.

• there are the endless tales from Amazon warehouse workers that the company is so stingy about break time that they often don’t have enough time to go back and forth to the bathroom without getting demerits for exceeding their allotted daily break time.