

Some employees hear about it through word of mouth or stumble upon it themselves. The Slack channel, #focus-and-pivot-info, is not highly publicized, according to interviews with eight current and former Amazon employees, five of whom are or were members of the channel. The Slack channel for employees who've been put on Amazon's PIP - which sources say, and Insider's prior reporting suggests, is used to meet attrition goals and can feel arbitrary - offers a glimpse into the anguish and despair those workers experience as they face the prospect of being pushed out of their jobs. To see that this is how the company is treating good employees - all to meet an attrition target - disgusted me."Īmazon is well known for delivering packages quickly to customers all over the world - and for being an often tough and bruising place to work. "People were freaking out I could sense their distress.

"Logging on to the channel, quite frankly, it broke my heart," she said. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
