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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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Ruth Dyke
Saira Aly
Maureen Ellis
Lickys Likimba
Adam Milford
Robert Frank
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Paul Arber
Viv Banks
Kathleen Thornett
William Leslie
Jean Wanless
Jeanne Dicks
John Mcmaster
Michael Kearns
Pat Minchella
James Withers
Angela Stone
Saira Perveen
Joan Watkins
Rowena O’Toole
Victoria Wilson
Shirley Scrooby
Michael Gordon
Anne Houlton
Denise King
Ann And John Goodman
Mateusz Waligora
Mrs D E Knowles
Stephen Ratcliff
Paul Kilfoyle
George Patiniotis
Dr. John Stuart Archbold
Angi Haywood
David Wherry
Jonathan Eastwood
Susan Elizabeth Purseglove
Susy Davies
June Brown
Sarah Aref
Witold Lisiecki
Dan Raven
Ray Edge
Janet Crossley
Michele Rawlinson
John Frederick Beresford
Sue Macraild
Graham Butterfield
Michael Walton
Andy Meikle

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