Workers In The Amazon Warehouse

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From the documentary, it is clear that workers in the amazon warehouse has low to negative job satisfaction. This will reduce the individual and organizational job satisfaction (Cook, 2015). Negative job satisfaction will increase absenteeism and turnover. According to human resource point of view, Employees are the most valuable asset of an organization and keeping them unhappy is not good for a company in the long run.
Unhealthy workplace The workers has to walk an average of 6-8 miles a day during 10.5 hour long shifts, which will cause fatigue to the workers. The automatic lighting in the warehouse sometimes doesn’t work, so the workers has to work in the darkness which will increase the chances of accidents. The constant

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