They've got a high volume of employees at physical locations and high churn.
That seems like a recipe for this.
Leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of people to hire
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#22The Fed is about to induce 3 years worth of rising unemployment by their own estimates, so the days of workers not needing to take crap jobs out of desperation will soon be at an end.
https://qz.com/2178359/the-fed-predicts-3-years-of-rising-un...
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#23There's no shortage of workers, there's a shortage of workers wanting to work for Amazon.
There's a surplus of management eager to exploit workers.
> There's a surplus of management eager to exploit workers.
Can also be written "There's a surplus of customer eager to pay the lowest possible price even if that means exploiting workers."
As shown by the success of Chinese super low cost brands wether we are talking electronics, fashion etc.
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#24There's no shortage of workers, there's a shortage of workers wanting to work for Amazon.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is one reason why these types of megacorps support mass immigration, it provides a steady stream of desperate people they can exploit. Those from other countries also might lack the collective cultural knowledge to stay away.
I hadn't really thought before about how left-wing folks typically want higher wages as well as more mass immigration which inherently suppresses wages. In their defense, they want raises waged by law rather than by market (an elevated minimum wage would raise wages irrespective of immigration), but considering how unlikely a minimum federal wage hike is, it seems like they're pursuing two contradictory goals. EDIT:…
>as well as more mass immigration
I really haven't seen this with "left wing folks". That sounds more like some folks talking points they want you to buy into.
I think you might be mistaken. Any immigration /= "more mass immigration".
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#27I've always wondered about this, at Amazon and also at Uber/Lyft/DoorDash etc... They seem to burn through people quite fast. Won't they all just run out of people at some point, or will just increasing pay bring enough people back?
They can only increase pay so much before they have to increase their fees beyond the point people are willing to pay them. As an anecdote, I have completely stopped using DoorDash because they recently increased their fees to a level that I consider to be absurd.
Same. My last doordash order was for 20 dollars of food and after tip (the suggested) it came to over double the original food cost. That's just not sustainable for anyone.
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#28This is specifically in reference to warehouse workers, not the tech side of things. Though I've heard from many recently ex-Amazon engineers that they're having real trouble recruiting engineers now too
From the tech side, I'd say Amazon and Facebook are by far the most frequent to reach out on LinkedIn asking if I want a job compared to other big tech companies.
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#30Amazon has 1.6 MILLION employees based on its last financial report, with 1.1 million in the US. Basically 1% of the US labor force currently works for Amazon.
What % of the population of the US labor force currently shops on Amazon?
Amazon has become the substrate for more than tech- ordering stuff on Amazon is practically a utility like electricity, water and internet now.