Amazon is reportedly employing an AI-based system to track the productivity of warehouse workers and to automatically terminate employees who are found to be underperforming. Roughly 300 employees at a Baltimore facilities lost their jobs over August 2017 from 12 months. The platform uses a metric called “time off task” to evaluate worker efficiency and is authorised to issue automatic warnings and fire employees without the intervention of a supervisor if they fail to meet performance objectives.
Amazon is reportedly employing an AI-based system to track the productivity of warehouse workers and to automatically terminate employees who are found to be underperforming. Roughly 300 employees at a Baltimore facilities lost their jobs over 12 months from August 2017. The platform uses a metric called “time off task” to evaluate worker efficiency and is authorised to issue automatic warnings and fire employees without the intervention of a supervisor if they fail to meet performance objectives.