What Amazon Does to Poor Cities

Re:What Amazon Does to Poor Cities by matchagaucho on Friday February 02, 2018 @02:55PM (#16293701)

I've developed quota systems. It's not that dire. Under performers receive coaching.

"Regression to the mean" occurs when there are no incentives for over-performers.

Lazy management will simply raise quota without assessing downside risk (higher turnover, more injury, more sick days).

Good management will constantly adjust a balanced quota using a gaussian distribution.

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Re:What Amazon Does to Poor Cities by Spooky23 on Friday February 02, 2018 @06:22PM (#16295060)

What is the downside risk?

The job is mechanical, most of the grunts are temps and they don’t get sick days. You put you A team in a safer place, crank the volume and purge the rest.

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