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From their post on the topic it sounds like you should be happy with their plan: https://blog.aboutamazon.com/company-news/how-amazon-prioritizes-health-and-sa

From their post on the topic it sounds like you should be happy with their plan: https://blog.aboutamazon.com/company-news/how-amazon-prioritizes-health-and-safety-while-fulfilling-customer-orders https://blog.aboutamazon.com/company-news/how-amazon-priorit... > Millions of masks have been distributed across our network. They are available to all Amazon associates, delivery service partners, Amazon Flex participants, seasonal employees, and Whole Foods Market stores employees. We are encouraging everyone to take and use them. As for testing, they have been unable to do it through regular channels so they are building a lab to do it themselves: > An important safety step might be regular testing of all employees for COVID-19, including those without symptoms. We have begun assembling equipment we need to build our first lab to process tests and hope to start testing small numbers of our frontline employees soon. As for cleanliness: > We have increased the frequency and intensity of cleaning at all sites, including regular sanitization of door handles, handrails, touch screens, scanners, and other frequently touched areas. > Our enhanced cleaning has added almost 200 additional points of contact per site across our janitorial teams, and we’ve increased the size of our cleaning teams threefold to support our buildings. > We require everyone to wash their hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds, especially after using the bathroom and before eating, as well as after blowing their nose, coughing, or sneezing. If soap and water are not readily available, alcohol-based hand sanitizer stations are easily accessible throughout our buildings. > In addition to break times, employees can log out of their system to wash their hands whenever they choose, without worrying about impact on their performance goals.

uoaei 6y ago
Context matters. We are now over a month into the crisis, if you count it from the moment of lockdown. The fact that this wasn't a day one policy is inexcusable. Stop playing PR hype-man for Amazon, they don't need your help.
- duxup 6y ago
  That person is not playing anything. They are noting what the facts are right now.
  - uoaei 6y ago
    Those aren't facts, those are PR slogans from a blog post on Amazon's web site. I am not holding my breath to see whether these policies are enacted in good faith, given Amazon's business practices and labor relations of late.
    - duxup 6y ago
      Are you saying Amazon didn't do the things the other user noted?
      - uoaei 6y ago
        I'm being specific about the framing and the narrative that is constructed when well-meaning users parrot corporate talking points in an organic setting like a public Internet forum.
- mc32 6y ago
  Policies take time to develop as people develop understanding of the situation , then there’s availability and putting policy into practice.
  - uoaei 6y ago
    Amazon has by now spent millions of man-hours on addressing COVID-19 -- meetings, designing splash banners, etc. They are a very big company who pays big money for top talent. Amazon is not the scrappy upstart it was 15 years ago. Let's hold them accountable according to what they are capable. Edit: it would seem obvious in retrospect that if most major governments have action plans in case of global pandemic, a global logistics company should have done the same. I would be very surprised if they hadn't, frankly, and my view of Bezos would be lower than it already is if they hadn't because this is really something that should have mattered to him before it was a real situation.
    - tomnipotent 6y ago
      I'm so tired of this holier-than-thou "they should know better/be better prepared" bullshit. Once-in-a-century black swan event - yeah, every company should definitely have plans for something like this! Moving massive resources in an effort like this is no small feat, and trying to treat it like it's as simple as signing people up to Slack is silly. It's amazing how people think operations like just magically manifest "because".
      - mc32 6y ago
        Even companies with “pandemic” plans have a kind of outline of cascading triggers but a lot of the resulting triggers are undefined and those are things which basically say ($leadership) convenes talks things over and develop emergent plans and offer to their lower managers who take that and develop their own plans accordingly. And then that has to be revised with feedback from staff , etc...
      - uoaei 6y ago
        Not every company. But maybe a global, near-universal online marketplace, logistics company, etc. has a 10-year plan.
- jshevek 6y ago
  >Stop playing PR hype-man for Amazon, they don't need your help. You can address the other speaker's points without this.
- deleted 6y ago
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kevingadd 6y ago
Credit for the effort, but it has been a consistent issue over the last month and employees are still voicing concerns. https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/04/21/enough-enough-largest-strike-yet-amazon-workers-call-sick-over-unsafe-working# https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/04/21/enough-enough-l... Once the vast majority of employees say it's actually fixed I'll give Amazon real credit for it, but it's empty PR until then.
- SpicyLemonZest 6y ago
  This article mentions 300 people, which isn't a very big fraction of Amazon employees. I'm sure some employees who aren't participating sympathize, but what number would convince you that the "vast majority" think it's fine?

uoaei 6y ago

Context matters. We are now over a month into the crisis, if you count it from the moment of lockdown. The fact that this wasn't a day one policy is inexcusable. Stop playing PR hype-man for Amazon, they don't need your help.

duxup 6y ago
That person is not playing anything. They are noting what the facts are right now.
- uoaei 6y ago
  Those aren't facts, those are PR slogans from a blog post on Amazon's web site. I am not holding my breath to see whether these policies are enacted in good faith, given Amazon's business practices and labor relations of late.
  - duxup 6y ago
    Are you saying Amazon didn't do the things the other user noted?
    - uoaei 6y ago
      I'm being specific about the framing and the narrative that is constructed when well-meaning users parrot corporate talking points in an organic setting like a public Internet forum.
mc32 6y ago
Policies take time to develop as people develop understanding of the situation , then there’s availability and putting policy into practice.
- uoaei 6y ago
  Amazon has by now spent millions of man-hours on addressing COVID-19 -- meetings, designing splash banners, etc. They are a very big company who pays big money for top talent. Amazon is not the scrappy upstart it was 15 years ago. Let's hold them accountable according to what they are capable. Edit: it would seem obvious in retrospect that if most major governments have action plans in case of global pandemic, a global logistics company should have done the same. I would be very surprised if they hadn't, frankly, and my view of Bezos would be lower than it already is if they hadn't because this is really something that should have mattered to him before it was a real situation.
  - tomnipotent 6y ago
    I'm so tired of this holier-than-thou "they should know better/be better prepared" bullshit. Once-in-a-century black swan event - yeah, every company should definitely have plans for something like this! Moving massive resources in an effort like this is no small feat, and trying to treat it like it's as simple as signing people up to Slack is silly. It's amazing how people think operations like just magically manifest "because".
    - mc32 6y ago
      Even companies with “pandemic” plans have a kind of outline of cascading triggers but a lot of the resulting triggers are undefined and those are things which basically say ($leadership) convenes talks things over and develop emergent plans and offer to their lower managers who take that and develop their own plans accordingly. And then that has to be revised with feedback from staff , etc...
    - uoaei 6y ago
      Not every company. But maybe a global, near-universal online marketplace, logistics company, etc. has a 10-year plan.
jshevek 6y ago
>Stop playing PR hype-man for Amazon, they don't need your help. You can address the other speaker's points without this.
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kevingadd 6y ago

Credit for the effort, but it has been a consistent issue over the last month and employees are still voicing concerns. https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/04/21/enough-enough-largest-strike-yet-amazon-workers-call-sick-over-unsafe-working# https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/04/21/enough-enough-l... Once the vast majority of employees say it's actually fixed I'll give Amazon real credit for it, but it's empty PR until then.

SpicyLemonZest 6y ago
This article mentions 300 people, which isn't a very big fraction of Amazon employees. I'm sure some employees who aren't participating sympathize, but what number would convince you that the "vast majority" think it's fine?