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Willsmithsdignity t1_iu36qy9 wrote

Reply to comment by mojizus in Amazon predicts sales growth slowdown for holidays, crushing shares by Adelu1219

The answer is yes. People keep applying. I know because I train them.

The other answer is more complicated. If you hire 10 people and 5 stick and then hire 10 more people and 5 stick then you have 10 people there but you also lost 10 people and had 100% turnover. It's not that hard to hire for the same spot multiple times until you find the person who stays and end up with those numbers.

It's way more complex than that and there are other factors but it's at least partially that as far as I remember.

Also a looooooooooooooooot of people who quit come back. Amazon knows they will too. They're borderline arrogant about it. In the weekly newsletter (posted in the bathroom and called InSTALLments) it will often remind people that if they're gonna leave, to talk to HR and leave correctly so that it will be easy when they return.

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Where_Da_BBWs_At t1_iu3er4z wrote

Lol, at the orientation I went to they openly bragged that they replaced 800 hundred people every 3 months.

I only lasted 2 months before I chose to never go back, but there definitely were people there who were repeat offenders. According to them, if they were to quit, they would be eligible for rehiring exactly 6 months. Claimed doing so gave them an extra 10 days of PTO per year.

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BiggumsTimbleton t1_iu4h0d8 wrote

What locations were they able to hire 800 in 3 months? The postal service has a starting pay of $18 and change for carriers and it's almost near impossible to hire people and keep them despite the benefits. (once they are career employees anyway)

Amazon can't be much more competitive than that so I'm assuming the only way they're able to get that many people is that they're in a dense area that's poor where they're able to take advantage. Unless if I'm missing something and someone else has more insight.

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Where_Da_BBWs_At t1_iu504sz wrote

This was one of their largest fulfillment centers in the nation in one of the largest industrial districts in the nation.

Amazon was able to find employees by paying considerably more than almost everybody else. But as every other place in the area raised their wages to retain staff, there has definitely been diminishing returns.

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