- 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)
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
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