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Your evening longread: The Amazon that customers don't see

We bring you an interesting longread each evening to take your mind off the news.

EVERY WEEK, WE bring you a round-up of the best longreads of the past seven days in Sitdown Sunday.

And now, every weeknight, we bring you an evening longread to enjoy which will help you to escape the news cycle. 

We’ll be keeping an eye on new longreads and digging back into the archives for some classics.

Amazon

A look behind the scenes at Amazon’s JFK8 fulfillment centre in the US, and its staffing issues during Covid. 

(New York Times, approx 25 mins reading time)

In contrast to its precise, sophisticated processing of packages, Amazon’s model for managing people — heavily reliant on metrics, apps and chatbots — was uneven and strained even before the coronavirus arrived, with employees often having to act as their own caseworkers, interviews and records show. Amid the pandemic, Amazon’s system burned through workers, resulted in inadvertent firings and stalled benefits, and impeded communication, casting a shadow over a business success story for the ages.

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    Jan 6th 2015, 9:51 PM

    I think this particular burglar has landed himself in… hot water.

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    Jan 6th 2015, 10:14 PM

    YYYYEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!

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    Jan 6th 2015, 9:51 PM

    Clean bandit!

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    Jan 6th 2015, 10:57 PM

    Knowing the States he’ll get 15 yrs for stealing some crap beer and hot water.

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    Jan 6th 2015, 10:03 PM

    Drink and jacuzzi – even a burglar needs to unwind sometimes.

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    Jan 6th 2015, 9:50 PM

    It was just banter

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    Jan 6th 2015, 10:24 PM

    If he done that in Florida, it would have been the last bath he took

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    Jan 6th 2015, 10:31 PM

    It’s a stressful job being a burglar. They need to unwind too you know.

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    Jan 6th 2015, 9:54 PM

    That’s what you call a cheeky burglar.

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    Jan 6th 2015, 11:49 PM

    More Salem trials

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