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Senator Bernie Sanders continues to mislead the American public on workplace safety at Amazon [1]

['Amazon Staff']

Date: 2024-12-16 08:17:02.640000+00:00

The main premise of the report is fundamentally flawed.

The title of the report is “The ‘Injury-Productivity Trade-off’: How Amazon’s Obsession with Speed Creates Uniquely Dangerous Warehouses.” If that were accurate, what you’d see is that as our productivity and speed goes up, injuries go up. But what’s actually happened over the past five years is exactly the opposite – we’ve

increased our delivery speeds

, while

decreasing the injury rates

across our network. How is that possible? Because speedy delivery doesn’t come from pushing people harder – it comes from getting products closer to customers and reducing the number of steps involved in going from a supplier to a customer. We’ve spent years

re-designing our network

to do just that.

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[1] Url: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/policy-news-views/amazon-response-to-senator-bernie-sanders-report-on-workplace-safety

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