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Amazon has to be at the point of literally running out of nearby human beings to be concerned about retention.

https://www.essence.com/news/amazon-burning-through-workers/

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This article is about warehouse workers, not developers.

Workers are workers to management. Regardless of whether you pick up keyboards or press them.

It may be, but you may rest assured that when a recruiter asks me whether I'd like to work for Amazon, how they treat warehouse employees is going to be a factor in my answer. I've never been confident of the viability of "it's fine, they only hate other people" as a social strategy.

Not like Amazon exactly has a good reputation for treating tech workers well either.

> Amazon has to be at the point of literally running out of nearby human beings to be concerned about retention.

It seems like they're more than willing to hire imports. I get more recruiter spam from them than anyone else, and I don't live anywhere near any of their major offices.

This is true as well. I got an email offering me immigration support to move to Vancouver. I already live in Canada, have my entire life, and every job has also been in Canada.

You are assuming recruiters can read

They have lots of remote jobs now as well.

I read a stat that 1 out of ~154 Americans currently works for amazon.

American workers, not Americans overall - it's still astonishing, but they have a bit less than a million US employees rather than 330M/154 = 2.1M employees.

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