Amazon ends an experiment started in 2023 to make same-day deliveries with drivers in Kia Souls and will rely on Amazon Flex drivers who use their own cars
Matt Day / Bloomberg : Bluesky: @quinnypig.com Bluesky: Corey Quinn / @quinnypig.com : Their quest to be a Soul-less company continues. [embedded post]
Washington DC AG Karl Racine sues Amazon, alleging the company previously withheld user tips from its Amazon Flex delivery drivers, citing a 2021 FTC settlement
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Interviews with 15 Amazon Flex drivers reveal how algorithms hire, rate, and fire contract drivers with little or no human oversight
Interviews with 15 Amazon Flex drivers reveal how algorithms hire, rate, and fire contract drivers with little or no human oversight
Stephen Normandin spent almost four years racing around Phoenix delivering packages as a contract driver for Amazon.com Inc. Then one day, he received an automated email.
An Amazon Flex delivery driver shares his fears while working on the frontlines of the US coronavirus pandemic
DUBLIN, Calif. (Reuters) - Excelso Sabulao delivers groceries for Amazon.com Inc in California so he can help provide his parents an income. Now, with endless interactions … Tweets: @reuters , @reute...
Amazon says it now requires Amazon Flex delivery drivers to snap selfies on the road to verify their identities
Hayley Peterson / Business Insider :
Amazon says it now requires Amazon Flex delivery drivers to snap selfies on the road to verify their identities
- Amazon is requiring delivery drivers to snap selfies to verify their identities. — The selfies are meant to protect drivers from unauthorized usage of their Amazon Flex accounts, an Amazon spokeswo...
How delivery drivers for Amazon Flex, who are contractors, are missing out on the $15/hour pay increase, as a study says drivers earn $11/hour after expenses
except for a fleet of contractors who earn $5-9/hr. As with Uber partners, many of these delivery contractors don't know what they're actually earning after expenses. http://www.bloomberg.com/... Mark...
Reporter recounts the day she spent delivering packages as an Amazon Flex driver in San Francisco, says she made less than minimum wage after expenses
Alana Semuels / The Atlantic : Tweets: @grahamdavida , @alanasemuels , @crapfutures , and @carlazanoni Tweets: David A. Graham / @grahamdavida : .@AlanaSemuels went to work as an Amazon Flex contract...
Amazon Flex workers, who are self-employed “last-mile” delivery drivers, describe the job and how the Uber-like Flex app coordinates deliveries
Who delivers Amazon orders? Increasingly, it's plainclothes contractors with few labor protections, driving their own cars …