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Surveillance, Stress, and No Bathrooms: Life as an Amazon Driver

Leave a Comment / gig economy, Independant Contractors / By max cyril

Part 2 of a series on Amazon’s delivery drivers. Part 1, “Building Its Own Delivery Network, Amazon Puts the Squeeze On Drivers,” is here. The Amazonification of logistics has created a new group of highly exploited workers: delivery drivers. Amazon itself increasingly relies on an expanding network of subcontracted drivers and independent contractors to deliver packages …

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Amazon Says It’s Giving Part-Time Workers PTO—But There May Be a Catch

1 Comment / paid leave / By max cyril

In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, Amazon has rolled out a new policy that extends paid time off to thousands of part-time operations employees. The change follows a months-long campaign by workers in Amazon’s last-mile delivery stations to demand PTO, touted in the company’s public communications as an “essential” benefit offered to all its workers. After …

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Amazon delivery

Surveillance, Stress, and No Bathrooms: Life as an Amazon Driver

Amazon Says It’s Giving Part-Time Workers PTO—But There May Be a Catch

Amazon delivery drivers report wage theft and other abuses

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