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Leak: Two-Thirds of New Amazon Employees Leave Within 90 Days

by MrWiffles on 10/18/22, 6:22 AM with 11 comments

• by noodlesUK on 10/18/22, 12:17 PM

  This is exactly what happened when two of my friends joined Amazon to work as in store shoppers at whole foods. They did their training, got paid, did the (incredibly intense) job a few days, asked themselves “is this really all there is to life” and left. They showed the company the same courtesy the company would have showed them and just didn’t turn up for shifts.

  If you treat your people as things, you shouldn’t be surprised when they either hate you or just don’t care.

• by silisili on 10/18/22, 7:50 AM

  I used to live near a large Zappos, then both Zappos/AMZ warehouse, in poor area where it was a decent job.

  The local forums were full of people complaining they were fired for silly reasons right before their 3 month mark, when they'd become permanent and get benefits. This was oh, about a decade ago.

  Now they're sounding the alarm because the employees are just quitting instead? I have a really hard time feeling sorry for Amazon, here....

• by V__ on 10/18/22, 11:49 AM

  > from entry level roles all the way up to vice presidents, the lowest attrition rate for one of the company’s 10 tiers of employees was almost 70 percent, with the highest reaching a staggering 81.3 percent.

  How long till they run out of people? This can't be sustainble in the long term.

• by alpaca128 on 10/18/22, 7:42 AM

  > workers are twice as likely to leave by choice, rather than because they were laid off or fired.

  > the issue is widespread throughout the company, not just with warehouse workers; from entry level roles all the way up to vice presidents, the lowest attrition rate for one of the company’s 10 tiers of employees was almost 70 percent, with the highest reaching a staggering 81.3 percent.

  > around three percent of the company’s hourly employees left each week

  Wow. That sounds even worse than things reported in the past.

• by not_enoch_wise on 10/19/22, 11:11 PM

  Nobody wants to work anymore

• by trasz on 10/18/22, 7:49 AM

  Realistically, how much can you make at Amazon pretending to work before they figure out and fire you?

  Because, honestly, once you realize it’s ethical to do so, Amazon being a bad actor on purpose…