The real problem, I was told, was the subtler plague of injuries from working through pain for fear of getting fired for low productivity numbers. That’s where Amazon really stood out—repetitive stress injuries. “Yes. Yes. Yes. There are lots of repetitive stress injuries,” said a man in his early thirties who’d been working as a picker in a Tennessee fulfillment center for three years. “I know people who developed various joint problems working there, and I now sometimes experience discomfort in my knees, which was never the case before.” “I saw plenty of older women who literally could not
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