

I think we've been early on the curve to this than most employers, particularly major employers in the U.S.Īmazon says it is now trying to enforce social distancing by videotaping all its employees and using artificial intelligence to study their movements. Dave Clarkĭave Clark: I could not disagree more strongly with the premise that we're late to this party. You've been seen as a company that puts profits ahead of people. But you have been very slow to install your workers' protections.

Lesley Stahl: Amazon is seen as an essential service through this pandemic.
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Figuring out how to make this happen falls in great part on the shoulders of Amazon's head of operations, Dave Clark. He said it would require not just money, but invention and humility. In his latest earnings' report, a week and a half ago, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos committed an additional $4 billion, at least, for COVID expenses, including more protections for his employees.

Amazon worker: At least 600 Amazon employees stricken by coronavirusīut the company has come under fire for the way it treats those workers on the frontlines of delivery.As the coronavirus pandemic has upended American life as we know it, many of us at home have relied on Amazon as a lifeline. How Amazon is handling the coronavirus pandemic 13:17Īmazon is the second largest private employer in the country, headed by the richest man on Earth.
