Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Amazon workers

  • On an average day, 51-year-old Connie Milby covered more than 10 miles in her tennis shoes, walking and climbing up and down three flights of stairs to retrieve tools, toys and a vast array of other merchandise for Amazon.com shoppers.
  • (Seattle Times)
  • Amazon.com strives to be increasingly efficient to ship customers orders as quickly as possible from its fulfillment centers around the world.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • Amazon currently has distribution centers in Indianapolis and the suburban communities of Whitestown and Plainfield, but the company hasnt given details on how many workers it has at those sites.
  • (Yahoo Finance)
  • The company has a dog friendly policy, similar to other companies such as Amazon, Ben Jerrys and Zynga including improved staff morale, worker productivity, and camaraderie among employees.
  • (New York Daily News)
  • Amazon.com Inc, Motorola Mobility Holdings, Nokia Oyj and Sony Corp. The agreement is a sign of the increasing power of Chinese workers to command higher wages given increasing prices in China, and an ageing workforce that has led to labor shortages.
  • (msnbc.com)
  • Amazons new business makes robots that can stock its warehouse shelves much faster than its human workers. Last week Amazon announced it was buying a robot maker called Kiva Systems for $US775 million ($745 million) in cash.
  • (The Age)
  • Best Buy workers help out customers at a Best Buy in Mountain View too much as a showroom for its possibly toughest competitor yet, online retailer Amazon.com.
  • (Yahoo Finance)
  • Amazon certainly didn't have workers jumping to their deaths from ledges, but it did get a lot of bad PR last fall when employees complained about extremely high temperatures and mandatory overtime while working in the company's warehouses.
  • (Time)
  • and online retailer Amazon.com Inc. is moving into the neighborhood. Construction of the Google campus is expected to begin later this year, and be completed by mid-2013.
  • (The Boston Globe)
  • Amazon.com will open a fifth mega-warehouse in Indiana, this one in Jeffersonville, where as many as 1,050 full-time workers will be hired.
  • (Indianapolis Star)

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