Amazon’s New Algorithm Will Set Workers’ Schedules According to Muscle Use

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The pace and intensity of work in Amazon’s warehouses is notorious, and injuries are disturbingly common. In his last letter to shareholders as CEO, posted on Thursday, founder and incoming executive chairman Jeff Bezos offered a solution that seems to stretch the definition of micromanagement: algorithmically shuffling workers around the warehouse based on which isolated muscle-tendon groups they’re repetitively grinding.

Amazon’s New Algorithm Will Set Workers’ Schedules According to Muscle Use
 
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