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Amazon Is Reportedly Planning to Replace Half a Million Workers With Robots and Automation
Amazon is reportedly planning to replace human workers with AI-powered robots to cut costs and boost efficiency. Internal documents suggest the company could avoid hiring around 6,00,000 US workers by 2033 through warehouse automation. To soften backlash, executives are reportedly advised to use terms like “advanced technology” or “cobots” ...
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Amazon India Workers Take Oath To Finish Task Before Toilet Break: Report
Amazon India finds itself under scrutiny after allegations of harsh working conditions and stringent productivity demands surfaced from workers at its warehouses in Haryana's industrial hub of Manesar.
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How 10-Minute Delivery Apps Are Challenging Amazon, Flipkart In E-Commerce
In a middle-class suburb of Mumbai, workers at SoftBank-backed Swiggy's grocery warehouse race against time to deliver orders within 10 minutes. Their speed is tracked by the seconds on a screen that flashes red warnings for slowness.
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Amazon Fined $34 Million In France For "Excessive" Surveillance Of Workers
France's data protection agency said Tuesday that it had fined Amazon's French warehouses unit 32 million euros ($34.9 million) for an "excessively intrusive" surveillance system to keep track of staff performance.
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Amazon Employee Fired After He Complained About Lifting Heavy Boxes On TikTok
The video in question was posted on December 6 where he said that he worked an extra shift and was given the job of a picker at Amazon warehouse.
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Amazon Still Seems Hell Bent on Turning Workers Into Robots - Here’s a Better Way Forward
Amazon has seen hundreds of workers strike at its Coventry warehouse in the UK, as employees push back against long hours and a surveillance system that records the time taken to do each task, as well as going to the toilet. Here's how Amazon can improve work quality without turning its workers into robots.
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Amazon Staff In UK Claims Their Toilet Breaks Were Timed
Two Amazon workers said that the robots in the warehouse "are treated better than us".
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"Make Amazon Pay" Protests In 40 Countries Threaten Black Friday Sales
Thousands of Amazon warehouse workers across about 40 countries plan to take part in protests and walkouts to coincide with Black Friday sales, one of the busiest days of the year for online shopping.
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Amazon Suspends at Least 50 Workers After Employees Protested Against Fire Incident
Amazon has suspended at least 50 warehouse employees who refused to work their shifts following a trash compactor fire at one of its New York facilities, according to union organisers. The company suspended the workers, with pay, on Tuesday, a day after the fire disrupted operations at the Staten Island warehouse that voted to unionise earlier this...
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Amazon Increases Hourly Wages for US Warehouse, Transportation Workers Ahead of Peak Gifting Season
Amazon on Wednesday announced that it had raised the average hourly pay for warehouse and transportation workers in the US to $19 (roughly Rs. 1,560). According to Amazon, the pay hikes will cost the company $1 billion (roughly Rs. 8,200 crore) crore over the coming year. The e-commerce giant's decision comes ahead of the peak gifting season in the...
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Amazon Is Reportedly Planning to Replace Half a Million Workers With Robots and Automation
Amazon is reportedly planning to replace human workers with AI-powered robots to cut costs and boost efficiency. Internal documents suggest the company could avoid hiring around 6,00,000 US workers by 2033 through warehouse automation. To soften backlash, executives are reportedly advised to use terms like “advanced technology” or “cobots” ...
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Amazon India Workers Take Oath To Finish Task Before Toilet Break: Report
Amazon India finds itself under scrutiny after allegations of harsh working conditions and stringent productivity demands surfaced from workers at its warehouses in Haryana's industrial hub of Manesar.
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How 10-Minute Delivery Apps Are Challenging Amazon, Flipkart In E-Commerce
In a middle-class suburb of Mumbai, workers at SoftBank-backed Swiggy's grocery warehouse race against time to deliver orders within 10 minutes. Their speed is tracked by the seconds on a screen that flashes red warnings for slowness.
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Amazon Fined $34 Million In France For "Excessive" Surveillance Of Workers
France's data protection agency said Tuesday that it had fined Amazon's French warehouses unit 32 million euros ($34.9 million) for an "excessively intrusive" surveillance system to keep track of staff performance.
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Amazon Employee Fired After He Complained About Lifting Heavy Boxes On TikTok
The video in question was posted on December 6 where he said that he worked an extra shift and was given the job of a picker at Amazon warehouse.
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Amazon Still Seems Hell Bent on Turning Workers Into Robots - Here’s a Better Way Forward
Amazon has seen hundreds of workers strike at its Coventry warehouse in the UK, as employees push back against long hours and a surveillance system that records the time taken to do each task, as well as going to the toilet. Here's how Amazon can improve work quality without turning its workers into robots.
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Amazon Staff In UK Claims Their Toilet Breaks Were Timed
Two Amazon workers said that the robots in the warehouse "are treated better than us".
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"Make Amazon Pay" Protests In 40 Countries Threaten Black Friday Sales
Thousands of Amazon warehouse workers across about 40 countries plan to take part in protests and walkouts to coincide with Black Friday sales, one of the busiest days of the year for online shopping.
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Amazon Suspends at Least 50 Workers After Employees Protested Against Fire Incident
Amazon has suspended at least 50 warehouse employees who refused to work their shifts following a trash compactor fire at one of its New York facilities, according to union organisers. The company suspended the workers, with pay, on Tuesday, a day after the fire disrupted operations at the Staten Island warehouse that voted to unionise earlier this...
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Amazon Increases Hourly Wages for US Warehouse, Transportation Workers Ahead of Peak Gifting Season
Amazon on Wednesday announced that it had raised the average hourly pay for warehouse and transportation workers in the US to $19 (roughly Rs. 1,560). According to Amazon, the pay hikes will cost the company $1 billion (roughly Rs. 8,200 crore) crore over the coming year. The e-commerce giant's decision comes ahead of the peak gifting season in the...
