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To John Boumphrey (Amazon UK Country Manager) and Jeff Bezos (Executive Chairman, Amazon):

Open letter text

For us, Prime Day is one of the most dangerous times of the year. During huge pushes like Prime Day and Black Friday, the pressure piles up so high it can land people in hospital.

So this year, we’re asking you to:

- Stop micromanagement
- Bin unfair targets like Time Off Task
- End the constant surveillance


Working in an Amazon warehouse today is so stressful. Even the tools we use, like scanners, are tracking us. We’re always worried about how many seconds we have left to pick up a parcel. We can’t even see all of the targets you track - and it makes it impossible for us to know if our jobs are ever safe.

We try to keep up, but it wears people out.

Drivers are struggling too. 96% of us have said we’ve had to drive dangerously to meet Amazon’s targets, according to a survey of hundreds of drivers from the Organise network.

We’re proud of the work we do to get parcels out to customers. But this inhuman pace can’t go on. It’s not worth risking people’s lives.

Please put this right. Stop the micromanagement. Bin the unfair targets. Let us work with dignity and end the constant surveillance.

Signed,

6 Oct 2022
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Amanda Ford
Jill Coward
Errol Walsh
Robert Michael Somerset Baker
Penny Shaw
Sean
Michael Walton
Lealani Myers
Kevin Luke Tulliver
Liliana Elena Sinanovic
Kenneth Frank Groom
Anna Smallwood
Phil Sutton
Patricia Mcglew
Ranil Hewavisenti
Roger Holden
Geoff Nigel Halpin
Annette Buckley
Rupik Agata
Estelle Burrows
Elizabeth Nicholls
Paul Dickie
Jaine Weddell
Leon Collins
Laura Fellows
Laura James
Mohamed Rashid
Selina Moate
Christine Dymkowski
Wai Cammish
Paul Bonham
Pauline Wilde
Evice Acquah
Anne Mawby
Damien Leith
Stephen Nicholas
Angela Kennedy-Straw
John Price
Arthur Mitchell
Richard Williams
Teresa Hoyles
Charlene Jenkins
Donna Hinds
Michael Hilton
Janet Elizabeth
David M Burn
Bronwen Grant Morgan
Sue Ponton
Rosalyn Davies
Geoffrey Shaw

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