Amazon Is Dictating Personal Hygiene, Nail Length of Contract Drivers
An Amazon delivery driver scans bags of groceries while loading a vehicle outside a distribution facility in Redondo Beach, California.
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Amazon is dictating the hygiene and monitoring the social media posts of drivers that itâs contracting from other small companies, new documents show. The policies are part of a litany of strict guidelines that recent reporting has found Amazon workers are required to follow.
A document outlining the policies, which was recently obtained by
Bloomberg, shows that the company manages even the smallest details of driversâ bodies, like their fingernail cleanliness.
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