Prime Day Is Reportedly a 'Major' Source of Injury for Amazon Warehouse Workers

While millions of Amazon shoppers were delighted by discounts for Prime Day 2024 connected July 16 and 17, a U.S. Senate study alleges nan arena is simply a "major" origin of injuries for Amazon storage workers, citing a year's worthy of information watching moving conditions.

The information showed that, during awesome Amazon shopping events including Prime Day and nan vacation season, warehouses are understaffed and Amazon did not deed its hiring targets for high-volume periods. The study besides alleges that during Prime Day successful 2019, location were 10 injuries for each 100 workers, much than double nan manufacture mean for akin events.

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"Amazon continues to dainty its workers arsenic disposable and pinch complete contempt for their information and wellbeing," U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders said successful nan report. "That is unacceptable and that has sewage to change."

Amazon spokesperson Kelly Nantel told CNBC that nan study was not accurate.

"It draws sweeping and inaccurate conclusions based connected unverified anecdotes, and it misrepresents documents that are respective years aged and contained actual errors and faulty analysis," Nantel said, per nan outlet. "For example, 1 of nan mendacious claims successful nan study implies that we're not adequately staffed for engaged shopping periods."

Newly released information from Adobe Analytics recovered that July 16, nan first time of nan Amazon Prime Day event, was nan biggest e-commerce time of 2024 truthful far, pinch complete $7 cardinal successful revenue. The preliminary information marks an 11.7% summation from nan aforesaid clip past year.

The precocious volume, however, led to nan institution mounting "unsustainable productivity requirements and that superior injuries are common" during Prime Day, nan probe said, citing erstwhile and existent workers. One worker alleged that workers had back-to-back twelve-hour shifts pinch little than an eight-hour break successful between.

"Prime Day and nan vacation play are characterized by highly precocious measurement and aggravated unit to activity agelong hours and disregard information guidelines," nan probe states. "Through its investigation, nan Committee uncovered grounds that Amazon fails to mention workers for extracurricular aesculapian care, which tin impact whether an wounded is considered 'recordable.'"

"This is not an acceptable group of practices from 1 of nan richest companies successful nan world," nan probe reads.

Amazon is coming disconnected of a beardown Q1 2024, pinch nett income reaching $143.3 billion, a 13% summation from nan aforesaid play past year.

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"It was a bully commencement to nan twelvemonth crossed nan business, and you tin spot that successful some our customer acquisition improvements and financial results," Andy Jassy, Amazon President and CEO said successful a release, astatine nan time.

Amazon was up astir 40% twelvemonth complete twelvemonth arsenic of Thursday morning.