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.

  • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    It is the philosophy, I was at a warehouse for about a year and there were I believe two people left who started around the same time as me, if I had to guess 10% stay past 6 months, 5% past a year. Unless you live in a low cost of living area where other businesses are paying federal minimum wage there's not much keeping anyone there. They try dangling a carrot saying you could make assistant manager within a year but they're much more likely to hire people with 4 year degrees than promote from within, all of the assistant managers had been there for a few years minimum waiting for a management position to open up, which start at like 21/hr.