Even more info on Amazon’s attrition problem.

Last year, only a third of Amazon’s new hires stayed with the company for more than 90 days before quitting, being fired, or getting laid off

The report, which is based off internal research papers, slide decks, and spreadsheets from Amazon, claims that workers are twice as likely to leave by choice, rather than because they were laid off or fired. It also says that the issue is widespread throughout the company, not just with warehouse workers; from entry level roles all the way up to vice presidents, the lowest attrition rate for one of the company’s 10 tiers of employees was almost 70 percent, with the highest reaching a staggering 81.3 percent.

  • Alaskaball [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    In FY 2021, the turnover rate — excluding TNT Express employees and U.S.-based FedEx Supply Chain employees — was 23% for full-time workers and 183% for part-time workers, primarily package handlers.

    United Parcel Service Inc. UPS disclosed Tuesday that its workforce was reduced by about 9,000 employees in 2021,

    I'm guessing it's a similar turnover rate to fedex for ups..

    Simply put, during the past two years of covid, the workload and workflow increased to absurd levels that the corporate infrastructure wasn't prepared to handle, with most if not all the companies doing little to nothing to prepare for the influx of online orders. So quite literally everyone that's involved in the process of moving shit from point A to B have been overworked and drastically underpaid in relation to the output that's been expected of them.

    I've even heard that the courier companies have even been forced to force their office workers and managerial staff do deliveries too in order to keep the system profitable. I've heard they've also been burning out cargo plane pilots and desperately need more flight crews. I've also heard that delivery and cargo drivers have been hitting their max driving hours consistently to the point that I've heard that they're also getting burned out or are suffering stress/exhaustion injuries to thr point of causing vehicular accidents on their routes.