Amazon’s warehouse worker tracking system can automatically fire people

Amazon employs a system that not only tracks warehouse workers’ productivity but also can automatically fire them for failing to meet expectations. Amazon has fired more than 300 workers, citing productivity, at a single facility in Baltimore in a single year (August 2017 through September 2018), The Verge’s Colin Lecher reported. Read more: Undercover author finds Amazon warehouse workers in UK ‘peed in bottles’ over fears of being punished for taking a break
If the system determines the employee is failing to meet production targets, it can automatically issue warnings and terminate them without a supervisor’s intervention, although Amazon said that a human supervisor can override the system.

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