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Amazon locks down internal employee communications amid organizing efforts:
Amazon is reportedly (and suddenly) enforcing rules limiting employees' internal communication as workers, critical of the company's behavior, become increasingly outspoken and organized.
Internal listservs with more than 500 participants are now required to move to a moderated model where a manager must approve any content before its distribution, according to emails obtained by Recode.
Amazon had almost 800,000 total employees worldwide as of the end of 2019, a number that does not include the recent addition of another 175,000 temporary warehouse and delivery workers the company just hired to handle increased demand due to COVID-19. Of those 800,000, more than 500,000 are in the United States, and at least 275,000 of those are full-time employees.
Those hundreds of thousands of employees use thousands of internal listservs to talk among themselves about basically anything. That "anything," of late, includes many criticisms of Amazon. The company has faced both internal and external reproof[*] for its management of warehouses, where some employees have called for better cleaning, more protective equipment, and more paid time off as COVID-19 has spread through at least 50 US facilities.
[*] Malformed link in original; corrected here.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by MostCynical on Saturday May 02 2020, @10:52AM (1 child)
so Amazon employees/contractors/slaves use company listservs in their own time* to bitch about the company, and 'organise' (damned commies!) and think the company won't notice or care?
(*because they keep telling everyone how busy they are at work, it couldn't be on work time)
Don't they have enough alternative social media options?
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 2) by edIII on Sunday May 03 2020, @02:27AM
Would they be any less monitored? I hear articles about people being fired for the shit they post in private Facebook Groups that end up screenshotted.
Considering the history of unions, these morons need to be Telegram/Matrix/Signal. While they may meet online and know each other well, they don't interact at work. Seriously. They need to read some history.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.