Too bad the guy didn't take his design and patent it. Then turn around and license it to GE and all their competitors.
posted this on the wrong thread.
Amazon Will Pay You $5,000 to Quit Your Job
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#132It starts with 2000$ then 1000$ increment per year up to 5000$ This deal is for warehouse employees only and most of the people(90%+) working in warehouse are contractors. They handpick employee(s) and once a year and offer him/her this deal. BS!
The article made it sounds like a universal offer, maybe I could see per-business unit, but not per-employee. That would require you to already know who the dissatisfied workers are. The stated point was to discover early who is not satisfied in their job. Do you have a source on that?
As others have mentioned: keep in mind this offer is for warehouse employees. There's lots of hard metrics being gathered on those employees, so it's straightforward to figure out which ones are underperforming.
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#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
>The first (and stated) effect of this policy is to weed out the unmotivated employees. I would argue the opposite. This policy is going to get rid of the most ambitious of your lower-paid folks, leaving you with people who have loyalty - and those who don't feel they have other options. the "lifers" who want to stay with your company long-term, even at the cost of their long-term career. I mean, those people can be…
From the literature, Amazon contracts out it's warehouse duties to fulfillment companies. I'd be interested if anyone knew if Amazon had any direct employees (other than Sr. Management) that worked in the warehouses.
Huh. What about call centers? Thinking of it that way, the whole thing starts to make a little more sense. It is /hard/ to run a good low-end support organization, and it's one of those rare situations where attitude matters to the point where you want to get rid of the bad attitudes even if they are otherwise competent.
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#134The first (and stated) effect of this policy is to weed out the unmotivated employees. However, Dan Ariely has explained that the secondary effect is potentially more powerful. For those that choose to stay, they will forever live with their past action of having turned down lots of money to work there. So, when they're having a crappy day and hating their job, they're probably thinking "why didn't I take the money a…
This is so brilliant that they should be sued for doing it :)
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#135The first (and stated) effect of this policy is to weed out the unmotivated employees. However, Dan Ariely has explained that the secondary effect is potentially more powerful. For those that choose to stay, they will forever live with their past action of having turned down lots of money to work there. So, when they're having a crappy day and hating their job, they're probably thinking "why didn't I take the money a…
Are people really that good at duping themselves?
Seems metacognition, the ability to reflect on one's own thought process, would be a really good cure for such cognitive dissonance.
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#136The first (and stated) effect of this policy is to weed out the unmotivated employees. However, Dan Ariely has explained that the secondary effect is potentially more powerful. For those that choose to stay, they will forever live with their past action of having turned down lots of money to work there. So, when they're having a crappy day and hating their job, they're probably thinking "why didn't I take the money a…
Dilbert did this back in 1992! http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1992-08-09/
Freaky. So ... Dogbert quit and went to work at Amazon?
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#137I'd take $5000 to quit a job in an Amazon warehouse:
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/11/25/amazon-staff-inve...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/eamonnfingleton/2013/11/25/amazo...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2512959/Walk-11-mile...
http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/jean-baptiste-malet-amazon-wa...
:-) ... :-(
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#138Most blue collar workers turn over in a year, so this is just PR fluff. Companies can and do write them up at any time for the smallest of mistakes and then fire them, often within the first three months. Any statement made about a manual labor job and "After the first year" is ridiculous as is the tuition plan.
Do you have a source?
I worked similar jobs for several years.
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#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
I recall hearing about that for Zappos, but here the offer is repeated every year. Doesn't that ruin the effect - you know you can get (potentially even more) by quitting in a few months? And if it's only offered at certain times of the year, then there'll be a bunch of people hanging on until the offer comes around again.
You're missing the point that every pretty much every organization has people hanging on because they need the money, this is incentive to get some of those people to move on, not to eliminate the possibility of employees ever hanging on for a little bit more money.
Actually that was the other point (the one made in the article), which I wasn't missing but was simply not commenting on. The post above mine brought up a second point, which is the one I was questioning as the circumstances between Zappos and Amazon seem significantly different.
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#140The first (and stated) effect of this policy is to weed out the unmotivated employees. However, Dan Ariely has explained that the secondary effect is potentially more powerful. For those that choose to stay, they will forever live with their past action of having turned down lots of money to work there. So, when they're having a crappy day and hating their job, they're probably thinking "why didn't I take the money a…
Fascinating thanks for sharing this. Just another example of the unintended consequences that tend to crop up and pervert original intentions.