NEW YORK BILL TARGETS AMAZON'S USE OF PRODUCTIVITY QUOTAS
AppleMagazine|June 10, 2022
New York lawmakers have passed a bill targeting the use of warehouse productivity quotas in the state, a move aiming to curtail metrics employed by Amazon that has come under more scrutiny in the past few years.
NEW YORK BILL TARGETS AMAZON'S USE OF PRODUCTIVITY QUOTAS

Labor and safety advocates have long criticized the e-commerce giant's use of productivity quotas that log how workers pack and stow packages. If workers are inactive for a set period of time, the company's "time off task" tool can ding them for taking too many breaks, which critics have blamed for the company's injury rates.

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