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So, you take employees with a hard, physical job... and you offer them $5000 to leave and waive all claims against you...

I wonder if they target the ones that are starting to limp...

The article made it sounds like a universal offer, maybe I could see per-business unit, but not per-employee. That would require you to already know who the dissatisfied workers are. The stated point was to discover early who is not satisfied in their job.

Do you have a source on that?

It's called severance package. It's hard to find dissatisfied workers but easy to find non-performers.

I do not understand why this item is in shareholders' update. I feel sorry for Amazon's shareholders.

As others have mentioned: keep in mind this offer is for warehouse employees. There's lots of hard metrics being gathered on those employees, so it's straightforward to figure out which ones are underperforming.

If this is true (handpick), they need to update that article.