A Look Inside an Amazon Warehouse – Where Profits Are Placed Ahead of Workers

A Look Inside an Amazon Warehouse – Where Profits Are Placed Ahead of Workers
The writer's first-hand account of working at an Amazon warehouse.
A shipment moves on a conveyor belt at an Amazon fulfilment centre on the outskirts of Bengaluru, September 18, 2018. Photo: Reuters/Abhishek N. Chinnappa/File Photo
World27/Jan/2021
Sunlight is a privilege when working for Amazon, especially in winter. Amazon’s warehouse workers – or to use the company nomenclature, ‘fulfilment associates’ – are nocturnal on nightshifts and light sensitive on dayshifts. They see by the fluorescence of streetlights, the fluorescence of bus lights, and the fluorescence of endless rows of light fixtures bolted to every ceiling surface at Amazon’s ‘fulfilment centres.’ After a month of mandatory overtime shifts, turning 40-hour weeks into 50, I learned to savour the darkness of sleep at the end of each long day.

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