MILAN – The American giant online sales Amazon tries to erase the controversy about the quality of the treatment of its employees and launched testing of a week working week 30 hours, from 40 as a rule, reserved for the moment to teams of a few dozen full-time employees. in the recent past the platform there have been strong criticism for intense working conditions. Not surprisingly, many Anglo-Saxon observers bind the trial as a direct response to a long investigation that published the New York Times and very negatively painted labor standards at the company, with extended hours until 80 hours per week. Now the company is forming small groups consist entirely of workers, including managers, on a limited time schedule. These employees, unlike dozens of part-time employees will receive the same benefits as full-time employees, and 75 percent of the salary of workers to 40 hours a week, he explained the Washington Post ( which it is owned by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos) in announcing the news. According to the reconstruction of the weekly time reduction is aimed at creating a more stimulating working environment for employees. The new weekly working agenda should be limited to Monday-Thursday, from 10 am to 2 pm, with the addition of other “flexible hours.” Fortune adds that this novelty it is not a limited tendency to Amazon: “shorten” the work week responds to much broader issues, concerning for example the interaction between technology and workers: many argue that it will be less and less decessaria the long human presence in the workplace, precisely because of the technological support growth, and shorten times is a first move to defend the place of all preserving wages.
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