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Internal doc: Amazon has a high attrition rate across all levels, costing $8B annually, and workers choose to leave twice as often as layoffs and firings occur

Amazon churns through workers at an astonishing rate, well above industry averages.  According to a tranche of documents marked …

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  • @mytechmusings Prakash Sangam on x
    This finding is interesting... “..broadly condemn Amazon for not adequately using or tracking data in its efforts to train and promote employees, an ironic shortcoming for a company which has a reputation for obsessively harvesting consumer information..” @averysmallghost https:/…
  • @_katya_long Katherine Long on x
    $8B in attrition costs makes $1B in warehouse raises look very sensible. https://twitter.com/...
  • @carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on x
    The only surprise in the news employees quitting costs Amazon $8B a year is that it took this long for the company to treat employee welfare as a priority. Few companies in America have ingrained treating employees as replaceable cogs as much ad Amazon. https://www.engadget.com/.…
  • @kyweise Karen Weise on x
    “Of leaders hired in 2021, 39 percent ‘are university graduates with little to no work nor people leadership experience,’ while only four percent of warehouse process assistants, a low-level leadership role, were promoted to area managers.” https://twitter.com/...
  • @ronmknox Ron Knox on x
    Amazon really gotta believe that its workers are worthless if it can't even bother tracking how they're trained, AND IT'S LITERALLY A DATA TRACKING COMPANY https://www.engadget.com/... https://twitter.com/...
  • @seldo Laurie Voss on x
    Only 1 out of 3 people hired by Amazon stay there more than 90 days: https://www.engadget.com/...