Leaked Amazon Memo Reports SCARY Labor Force Prediction

A leaked Amazon memo raises alarms of 'looming labor crisis' for the Amazon workforce in the U.S. network that would take place by 2024. John Iadarola and Francesca Fiorentini break it down on The Damage Report.

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"After Recode on Friday revealed an internal document from last year warns that "if we continue business as usual, Amazon will deplete the available labor supply in the U.S. network by 2024," critics of the online retail giant's labor practices renewed calls for improvement.

Journalist Jason Del Rey's reporting on the "looming labor crisis" comes as the company is under fire for battling its workers' organizing efforts, including the historic victory of the Amazon Labor Union at a Staten Island facility earlier this year.

"This is crazy. Amazon burns through workers so fast there might be none left soon," tweeted New York City organizer and writer Joshua Potash, adding that he "can't imagine how anyone defends a system that treats people like expendable parts like this.""

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[ComradeCatpurrnicus]

Imagine treating your employees well and paying them fairly so that you don't have to exhaust the entire labor force looking for people desperate enough to work and stay with your horrible company?

[bevinboulder]

What do you expect from a company whose CEO believes that people are fundamentally lazy. Why don't you just try treating your workers better and see what happens to their productivity levels? ? ? ? ?

[wandasetzer]

I wouldn't work somewhere that I could lie dead on the floor all day before anybody noticed me.

[annielane]

The first time someone had to pee in a bottle, people should of quit! Believe it or not I have never and still don't have Amazon.

[lj]

Its almost like treating workers as if they are disposable isn't actually sustainable for very long. Who would have thunk.

[RamenNoodle]

That's been Amazon's work model all along - workers are only supposed to last 3 months before they quit.

[ursaltydog]

If they treated them well instead of creating a nightmarish place of employment, worked on retention, instead of pushing people out every season, actually showed LOYALTY to the employee and worked with them in needing days off, real sick leave, unfettered breaks, and provided reasonable accommodations, workers would stay.

[charlotteinnocent]

If no one wants to work for you, you need to
1. Offer better pay and
2. Offer better conditions.
That easy.

[acm]

"Business as usual". Says it all.

[TheInditribe]

That's what happens when you treat people like shit. May they go belly up.

[cocobrotha]

They have their employees working ten hours a day. Sometimes have to do overtime. They need more pay.

[wiyxgyo]

Where is the corporate report that says “if most workers can’t afford food, medical care, housing, energy, and or transportation working 60 hours per week, who is going to buy our products?”

[michaels]

They could always start hiring people with felony changes to give them a chance to succeed.

[patrickomahoney]

We DO live in a science fiction dystopia!

[westabsupplyebay]

The 15 bucks an hour is so old that in 2015 it was barely manageable, now it's a meh pay rate.

[BD-uwkq]

Treat your employees as if they are hard labor prisoners or slaves and soon no one will work for you. Giving low to mid level management a holes the same power as a nazi concentration camp guard is also a huge problem.

[kaskus]

They also don't properly air condition their facilities or give workers proper break time. Those things in Arizona will kill you.

[sandykatz]

He wants slaves, he doesn't care if you can't live on $15.
He feels you can be replaced ...
It's hard enough to get good workers let alone workers

[wyvern]

I mean, anyone else remember the news about Amazon only wants new people to work there, because more long term workers are less desirable.

[jbos]

They could try not treating their employees like crap. Jeff can't even pretend that he cares about people.