Jen Crowcroft, a spokesperson for Amazon, told Motherboard that the transition to megacycle provides a longer window for customers to place orders and an improved station experience, and makes it easier for different delivery stations to work together. DCH1 Amazonians United in Chicago and another affiliated group of warehouse workers called Amazonians United NYC told Motherboard that newly opened Amazon delivery stations appear to be on the "mega-cycle shift." In August, Bloomberg reported that Amazon had plans to open 1,000 new delivery stations in cities and suburbs around the United States to improve on its two-day Prime delivery times, which faltered during the early days of the pandemic. An Amazon spokesperson told Motherboard that more than half of its last-mile delivery network has already transitioned to the new model.Īmazon's nationwide push to move its workers from shorter daytime shifts to longer shifts that begin in the middle of the night fits within the company's efforts to increase efficiency and speed up delivery speed for its customers at the cost of its workers' health and safety.Ī delivery station is the smallest type of Amazon warehouse, where packages are prepared by warehouse workers for last-mile deliveries to customers' homes. It's unclear where the term megacycle originated but it's used by both managers and workers to describe 10-hour graveyard shifts, workers tell Motherboard. The megacycle shift collapses shorter shifts into one 10-hour shift that begins around 1 am and ends around lunchtime. The company has been quietly transitioning warehouse workers at delivery stations nationwide to the "megacycle" shift in recent months. The ultimatum presented to workers at DCH1 reflects a broader strategy in the U.S. "In this COVID-19 environment, kids are home and learning virtually and a parent needs to be with them." "The new schedule is unworkable particularly for many mothers, those who care for elderly relatives and others who need to be home in the morning hours," they continued. " is cruel and the antithesis of family-friendly corporate responsibility," organized workers at the facility who go by DCH1 Amazonians United, told Motherboard. Its closure will force workers to choose between their lives outside of Amazon and keeping their jobs in the middle of a pandemic. DCH1 has been the target of protests, walkouts, and petitions organized by workers that have changed Amazon's nationwide policies for its warehouses.
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