Nobody likes getting fired. What could be worse? How about being fired by artificial intelligence?
The system Amazon uses to track the company’s warehouse personnel can also automatically terminate their employment. More salt in the wounds for what critics say are unpleasant working conditions.
In documents recently obtained by The Verge, the publication says Amazon’s automatic tracking of how many boxes workers fill and how quickly they fill them also generates performance based warnings and even pink slips.
Management can override the terminations but it isn’t clear how often that occurs. Between Fall 2017 and 2018, nearly 300 full-time employees where shown the ‘automatic’ door.
Source: https://www.technologyreview.com/f/613434/amazons-system-for-tracking-its-warehouse-workers-can-automatically-fire-them/
