Why Amazon Is Giving Employees $10,000 to Quit
Why Amazon Is Giving Employees $10,000 to Quit
Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer
May 15, 20194m 27s
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Show Notes
The so-called last mile of delivery—getting an order to the customer’s door—has long been an obsession for ecommerce companies. To make the journey as efficient as they can, some have engaged in extreme experiments. Take Walmart: Two years ago, it tried asking its employees to deliver online orders before and after work, in their own cars. That idea was later abandoned, but the problem of the last mile remains, even for the biggest retailers.
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