2024-07-18 23:25:33
Believe it or not, research indicates that Amazon Prime Day is its worst day, but not because of finances, but because something is happening with the workers of Amazon.
The US Senate has put the largest online store, Amazon.
This is due to an issue with the own Amazon workerswell, research shows that Amazon Prime Day is the worst day for the same workforce, why?
Research reveals that Amazon Prime Day is the worst day for its workers
Through a report from the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP, in English) of the United States Senate, Amazon has been singled out for giving the worst day for its employees. workers with Amazon Prime Day.
Because in the face of the high activity during the working day Since Amazon Prime Day, the number of injured Amazon workers has risen.
Consequence of a lack of adequate personnel and support for the maneuvers of the popular day that Amazon invented.
With this, the US authority accuses Amazon of treating their employees as “disposable”.
“Amazon continues to treat its workers as if they were disposable and with complete disregard for their safety and well-being.”
United States Senate
This is according to information that Amazon itself provided to the committee, in which internal data from Prime Day 2019 shows that its overall injury rate was “just under” 45 per 100 workers.
Equivalent to “almost half of the employees in the company’s warehouse,” the report notes.
The data shows that Amazon has not had enough staff in its warehouses not only during Amazon Prime Day, but also during the holiday shopping season, “putting at risk workers who have to manage a greater volume of work without greater support.”
Amazon responds to having the worst day for its workers on Amazon Prime Day
In light of the allegations that workers in Amazon have their worst day on Amazon Prime Day, the company responded by treating them like “disposable”.
The spokesperson for AmazonKelly Nantel said the report ignores the progress the company has made.
This is because in its internal report on Lessons Learned from Prime Day 2021, it is stated that the company “met only 71.2% of its hiring target” between May and June 2021.
“He draws sweeping and inaccurate conclusions based on unverified anecdotes and misrepresents documents that are several years old and contain factual errors and flawed analysis.”
Amazon
The Amazon spokesperson also said that since 2019 the company has reduced its incidence rate for basic first aid by 28% in the United States.
While the rate of lost time incidents in Amazonwhich include serious injuries, have been reduced by 75%.
2024-07-18 23:25:33