On the heels of thousands of Amazon workers voting to authorize a strike at the company’s first-ever unionized warehouse, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), yesterday released a report entitled “The ‘Injury-Productivity Trade-off’: How Amazon’s Obsession with Speed Creates Uniquely Dangerous Warehouses.” The report presents the findings of a sweeping, 18-month investigation led by Chairman Sanders into Amazon’s abysmal workplace safety practices.
Heather MacDougall, former Amazon Vice President of Health & Safety, is now under consideration by President-elect Trump to lead the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), which is tasked with ensuring the health and safety of U.S. workers.
this is ground control to major yikes
The majority of people: “gotta take advantage of the single day delivery!”
I want to let Amazon figure out the most efficient way to deliver to me (which isn’t often). My intuition says that deviating from the first suggested method of delivery is throwing a wrench in their algo somehow. I trust that the profit seeking machine inside will ship something in the least work possible by design, but there’s no option for “Amazon figures it out, within a week.”
Alternatively maybe an option for the highest risk of injuries would be a better metric to choose the shipping speed, some kind of spectrum ui option from very likely to unlikely. Just giving those IT guys some UX ideas.
My intuition says that deviating from the first suggested method of delivery is throwing a wrench in their algo somehow.
From my experience, I usually have to pick an option other than the default, because I rarely need something to arrive between 4am and 7 am! LOL
I’m fine with “any time tomorrow or the next day”, since that’s typically the only other option.
