High stress
Amazon set unreasonably high production quotas for warehouse workers creating constant stress argues critics. Amazon keeps track of how long it takes a picker to pull a product out of the shelf and place it in a bin. Workers who don't meet the rates for pulling items by the company risk losing their jobs. “We had a guy who was a really good worker, but he had a heart condition. He was having heart palpitations,” said a former Amazon worker in Pennsylvania, who asked not to be named so she could talk about the company candidly. “He couldn’t walk as fast as he used to be able to, so they fired him. They told him it was his fault.”
Amazon does not disclose the rate at which workers are fired, but a person familiar with Amazon’s hiring practices said it is a very low number.
The former Amazon worker said she and other employees were told that