AI Cameras Give Amazon Employees Real-Time Social Distancing Feedback June 16, 2020 By Andrew G. Simpson Amazon Inc. is pairing cameras with artificial intelligence to enforce social distancing among employees in its offices and warehouses. The...
Sick Workers Frustrated by Amazon’s Automated In-House HR June 10, 2020 By Matt Day Tony Banks told Amazon.com Inc. right away when he tested positive for Covid-19. More than a month later, he’s on...
Amazon Delivery Drivers Say They Fear Becoming Target of Looters June 3, 2020 By Spencer Soper An Amazon.com Inc. delivery driver in Long Island, New York, was told to abandon his van and call 911 in...
Caffeine Bought Online Killed Teen. But is Amazon at Fault? May 4, 2020 By Andrew Welsh-Huggins COLUMBUS — Logan Stiner was just days from high school graduation when his brother found him unresponsive in their family’s...
Amazon Says It Will Risk Loss to Cover Jump in Pandemic Spending May 1, 2020 By Matt Day and Spencer Soper Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos normally uses the company’s earnings report to extol the virtues of Alexa or the benefits...
Pandemic Job Actions May Push Renewed Labor Movement April 30, 2020 By Nicholas Riccardi and Dee-Ann Durbin Jordan Flowers never thought he would become a labor leader. Then the coronavirus forced him to risk his life every...
Amazon Turns to Chinese Firm on U.S. Blacklist to Meet Thermal Camera Needs April 29, 2020 By Krystal Hu and Jeffrey Dastin NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO — Amazon.com Inc has bought cameras to take temperatures of workers during the coronavirus pandemic from a...
New York AG Raises Concerns About Amazon’s Pandemic Safety Practices April 28, 2020 By Kanishka Singh and Aakriti Bhalla Amazon.com Inc may have violated safety measures and labor practices amid the coronavirus pandemic as it fired a warehouse protest...
Amazon Fires Three Critics of Warehouse Conditions in Pandemic April 15, 2020 By Aakriti Bhalla and Jeffrey Dastin Amazon.com Inc said on Tuesday it had fired three critics of the company’s pandemic response for workplace violations, dismissals that...
Amazon Exec Called Fired Worker ‘Not Smart’ in Leaked Memo April 3, 2020 By Spencer Soper and Matt Day A senior Amazon.com Inc. executive called a fired Staten Island warehouse worker “not smart or articulate” in internal discussions about...