Amazon has turned a middle-class warehouse career into a McJob
By Matt Day and Spencer Soper, Bloomberg News
Published: December 21, 2020, 6:02am
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Employees at an Amazon warehouse in Hawthorne, Calif. Many Amazon warehouse employees struggle to pay the bills. (Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times/TNS)
Amazon.com Inc. job ads are everywhere. Plastered on city buses, displayed on career web sites, slotted between songs on classic rock stations. They promise a quick start, $15 an hour and health insurance. In recent weeks, America’s second-largest employer has rolled out videos featuring happy package handlers wearing masks, a pandemic-era twist on its annual holiday season hiring spree.