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.

  • turgidanklebrace [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Really good breakdown of a lot of my thoughts as well! I've really enjoyed everything I've read of Butler's. I had a little difficulty with Talents the first time I read it since coming off of Sower I was anticipating/expecting a grand conflict that didn't really arise, and it took additional reads to appreciate more of the other themes.

    I sometimes find myself a little frustrated with some modern SF that is marketed as being very diverse, when it tries to represent older SF as lacking any perspectives beyond the male, white, hetero norm that (to be fair) many of the dominant authors represented. But like... what about Butler, Tiptree, Delany, Le Guin, Tepper, etc etc etc? These are some of the best SF writers ever! But I guess it's not the marketing departments job to tell people to go find a used copy of an out of print novel that's probably better than the book they're trying to sell...