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Under pressure, afraid to take bathroom breaks? Inside Amazon's fast-paced warehouse world

Under pressure, afraid to take bathroom breaks? Inside Amazon's fast-paced warehouse world

6 years ago
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https://phys.org/news/2018-07-pressure-bathroom-amazon-fast-paced-warehouse.html

As he tells it, urinating into a bottle is the kind of desperation Amazon forces its warehouse workers into as they try to avoid accusations of "idling" and failing to meet impossibly high productivity targets—ones they are continually measured against by Big Brother-ish type surveillance.

It didn't help that the nearest bathroom to where he worked was four flights of stairs below.