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This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Some Amazon managers say they hire people they intend to fire just to meet their turnover goal. The practice is internally called "hire to fire," according to three Amazon managers. Amazon employees say the performance-review system gives managers too much power over their careers. Amazon has a goal to get rid of a certain percentage of employees every year, and three managers told Insider they felt so much pressure to meet the goal that they hired people to...

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E-commerce giant Amazon has apologized to a US lawmaker after falsely denying that some of its drivers are forced at times to urinate in plastic bottles. The flap started last week with a tweet from US Representative Mark Pocan, a Democrat. “Paying workers $15/hr doesn’t make you a ‘progressive workplace’ when you union-bust & make workers urinate in water bottles,” Pocan wrote on Twitter, in an apparent reference to Amazon’s opposition to efforts to unionize a major facility in Alabama. Amazon’s official account quickly responded, saying: “You don’t really believe the pe...

NEW YORK (AP) — Some Amazon workers are organizing the biggest unionization push at the company since it was founded in 1995. And it’s happening in the unlikeliest of places: Bessemer, Alabama, a state with laws that don’t favor unions. If organizers succeed, it could set off a chain reaction across Amazon’s operations nationwide, with thousands more workers demanding better

December 30, 2020 Life under lockdown is making all of us more eccentric. We’re forgetting how to socialize, staving off boredom with gardening and tie-dye, and forming deep emotional bonds with jars of sourdough starter. And some of us, like me, are getting really, really into our miniature under-desk bikes. I bought my little desk bike toward the end of November. The reality of the coming winter, featuring 4pm sunsets and icy temperatures, was setting in, and I worried that my motivation to go on rambling post-work walks was about to take a nosedive. Searching for a way to weave more exer...