Amazon to Lay Off over 17,000 Workers, More Than First Planned

Re:Amazon to Lay Off over 17,000 Workers, More Than First Pl... by bumby on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @09:59PM (#34255339)

>If a factory had people quit and expected everyone else work extra hours

Extra hours to cover is fairly common in factory work. What differentiated it in my experience is there was a union to ensure people were adequately compensated for overtime.

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Re:Amazon to Lay Off over 17,000 Workers, More Than First Pl... by andreareina on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @10:28PM (#34255528)

And that means that companies are incentivised to hire adequately. Whereas companies see no immediate (and attributable, this is important) problems when exempt employees are pushed to work overtime.

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Re:Amazon to Lay Off over 17,000 Workers, More Than First Pl... by bumby on Thursday January 05, 2023 @08:27AM (#34259256)

Ehh…from my experience, overtime was the rule, not the exception so I don’t know how strong that incentive was.

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