WorkingWell is not entirely new to Amazon employees, nor is the plan to cut injury rates. It was first piloted in 2019 and has already reached a huge number of workers, 859,000 employees at 350 sites in North America and Europe. In Amazon s most recent earnings report released in late April, the company indicated it was going to expand the program, though it did not offer full details. A company executive says it has never offered all of the program components at all sites, and it hopes to reach 1,000 sites by the end of 2021, and after that, extend to Europe (where pilot sites do exist), and beyond.
Jeff Bezos is known for tackling big issues and in his last annual letter included musculoskeletal disorders, a common workplace injury in Amazon warehouses.
03/03/21
John Dony
Like many of you probably have, I ve spent a good chunk of this long winter reflecting on the past 12 months (if there s one thing shoveling snow is good for, it s reflection). And like many of you, mostly I ve simply been dumbstruck by the fact that it s been a year since life has been anything approaching normal.
But part of my job is to take these sorts of musings and translate them into something useful – something that will help organizations make the
To that end, late last year, I set out to synthesize what I had been hearing from EHS and business leaders both before and during the pandemic. And while it was obvious that the circumstances of our work had changed drastically, it turned out the underlying drivers, needs, and trends hadn t. When I sat down (or shoveled) and thought about it, it seemed to me that COVID-19 didn t really change us so much as it accelerated us on a path we were already on.
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