Amazon came up with a dystopian result for when its storage warehouse employee struggle to keep their saneness amid work load so grueling they often do n’t have clock time touse the bathroom : Banish them to the speculation loge .
The “ ZenBooth ” or “ aware Practice Room , ” as it ’s call , is part of Amazon ’s recently establish WorkingWell program , which is drive at providing itsnotoriously overwork employees“physical and mental action , wellness exercises , and good for you feeding support ” intended to “ serve them reload and reenergize , ” according toa company mechanical press release . In these petite capitalist economy panic room … er , excuse me , “ single interactive cubicle , ” workers can watch out video of “ guided meditations , electropositive avowal , calming prospect with sound , and more . ”
In a now - deleted video about the booth that Amazon apportion on Twitter Wednesday , a casket - size box seat is shown smack dab in the midriff of one of its warehouses . Inside is a little desk with a single proctor , a few shelves with plants , a small fan , and a fanlight meant to imitate a bright , gamy sky in slip employees bury what that looks like during exhausting 10 - hour“megacycle”shifts .
Screenshot: Amazon News, Twitter / Gizmodo
Amazon worker Leila Brown , who helped make the ZenBooth as part of WorkingWell ’s genial wellness initiative , AmaZen , allege in the video that she wanted to “ create a distance that ’s subdued ” where “ people could go and focus on their mental and excited well - being . ”
She added that these kiosks are stand for to help “ reload the inner battery”—because we all know Amazon basically see its employee as biorobots . Amazon did not immediately respond to Gizmodo ’s request for commentary about how many of these Zen Booths have been install or why it take down the tweet . ( Though the latter in all probability has something to do with the backlash of Twitter usersrightfullypointingouthow dystopian the estimation is and deriding it as adespair closet ) .
In its public press release , Amazon draft design to invest $ 300 million into condom project in 2021 to hopefully cut its pace of workplace incidents by 50 % by 2025 . Amazon has a dire track track record when it fall to working conditions in its warehouses . One studyfound that Amazon recorded 14,000 serious injury at its storage warehouse in 2019 . That act out to about 7.7 serious harm per 100 employees , three time thenational averagefor this line of piece of work .
Call me disturbed , but I think Amazon would have better circumstances improving its employee ’ mental wellness and limiting its rate of workplace incident by treating its men like human beings instead of grinding them into debris with unrealistic demand so Jeff Bezos can pocket another billion dollars .
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