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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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Signers list

Derek Shilson
Susan Gillham
Graham Butterfield
Kevin Carroll
Robert Jones
Gwen Grant
Christopher J Sharp
Philip Smithson
Robert Williams
David Griffiths
Carol Plocka
Lisa Levey
Caitlin Hendry
Nigel Maxey
Rhona Jackson
Lesley Driver
Carrie Jones
Jill Randall
Karen Coupe
Eva Darlow
Maria Patrica
Len Perks
David Castle-Smith
Edward Marks
Sarah Hannaford
Ms S F Carr
Fouz Moynihan
Barbara Owen
Michael Pearce
Ann Andrews
John Eley
Mary Hawkeswood
Janet Fielding
Dr David Hanraty
Hugh Brown
Liliana Elena Sinanovic
Tibor Fodor
Yvonne Gregory
Paul Arnesen
Ivor Burrow
Mrs D E Knowles
Amanda J Momtazi
Samantha Royle
Peter Geddes
Alan Royston
Roger Arthur
Ian Niblett
George Hamilton
Imran Ali
Dennis E Powell

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