Amazon documents reveal how worker performance is monitored
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Internal Amazon documents released as part of case filed with the National Labor Relations Board indicated just how far the e-commerce giant goes with monitoring worker performance and in issuing warnings to those who fell short of expectations even by a small margin.
In one case, a worker at Staten Island warehouse was notified that he tallied 19 products in a storage bin that actually held 20. A mistake that the documents indicate would lead to a firing if repeated six times in a year.
In a single year, Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) reportedly issued more than 13,000 of the so-called "disciplines" at the Staten Island warehouse. That tally works out to more than two disciplines per employee.
Some of the employee notices released by Amazon (AMZN) included warnings on exceeding break time by four minutes and meeting 94% of the company's productivity goal instead of a full 100%.
Earlier in the week, Amazon (AMZN) lost its bid to block National Labor Relations Board reps from the Brooklyn office from participating in a hearing involving the same Staten Island warehouse, which was also the location of the landmark union victory for workers.
Unionization efforts of Amazon (AMZN) employees at warehouses in Albany, New York and Campbellsville, Kentucky are still in their early stages.
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