How Amazon could be Earth’s best employer: 5 ideas from a logistics pro turned warehouse worker

How Amazon could be Earth’s best employer: 5 ideas from a logistics pro turned warehouse worker

Gisela Hausmann is an author and veteran of the logistics industry who writes in her book “Inside Amazon: My Story” about her experiences working at an Amazon delivery station. Gisela Hausmann had a unique perspective on Amazon when she started a frontline job at one of the company’s delivery centers in South Carolina in 2019. … Read more

Amid COVID surge, Amazon to require masks for warehouse workers regardless of vaccination status

Amazon holding vaccination event for thousands of workers at fulfillment center south of Seattle

An Amazon employee walks into a fulfillment center in Kent, Washington and is handed a mask by another employee with a pair of pliers before starting a shift in the huge parcel handling warehouse last June. (GeekWire file photo / Kurt Schlosser) A day after its office workers’ return to a personal environment was postponed … Read more

Washington state regulators say Amazon’s workflow and pace injures warehouse workers

Washington state regulators say Amazon’s workflow and pace injures warehouse workers

(Amazon photo) Washington state regulators punished and admonished Amazon for relentlessly pressuring workers at its Dupont, Washington fulfillment center to result in workplace injuries. In addition, the company was cited for failing to implement its own ergonomic plans. According to the state Department of Labor and Industry quote, Amazon managers at the DuPont warehouse “have … Read more