- Amazon According to reports, some workers asks to report voluntarily to help with orders at Prime Day. Office employees in New York are asked to edit two -hour layers to select and pack orders for Amazon Fresh. This comes when Amazon adds more robots to its performance centers.
Prime Day is an all-hand-on deck day (or this year, four days) Event. And in order to adhere to his promises, the retail giant reports on some company workers to “voluntarily” their time to help customer deliveries.
The guardian Report Amazon sent a clever news to the workers in the New York office on Monday and for “volunteers who help us Main day to deliver to our greatest days to customers. ”
The call asked the workers to put on two-hour layers between 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. in Brooklyn’s Red Hook neighborhood in which Amazon operates an Amazon Fresh Warehouse. The volunteers were asked to select objects, prepare delivery orders and increase morality with the spread of snacks.
These volunteers can continue to receive calls and meetings during their volunteer layer in conference rooms, according to the Guardian.
The call for volunteers comes when Amazon closes to have more robot as humans in his fulfillment facilities. At the end of the last month, Amazon said it used Almost 1 million robots Help at workplaces to select and pack elements for shipping. About 75% of all global deliveries are now supported by robots in any way, the company said.
However, Amazon Fresh is an outlier. The food supply department has had difficulties in making profit in recent years and has recorded hundreds of employees since 2022.
Amazon did not immediately answer Fortune’s request for commentary on Guardian Story, but a spokesman told the newspaper: “This support is completely optional and enables company employees to bring themselves closer to customers and at the same time concentrate our business teams on the most effective work.”
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