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0 pointsnitrogen7y ago0 comments

There's a decent (fictional) short story about systems like this: http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm

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This isn't fiction anymore. Amazon uses systems essentially identical to this to manage their warehouse "pickers". Their performance is continuously tracked and they're retained or terminated based on those performance metrics.

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0 pointsnitrogen7y ago0 comments

There's a decent (fictional) short story about systems like this: http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm

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ForHackernews7y ago

This isn't fiction anymore. Amazon uses systems essentially identical to this to manage their warehouse "pickers". Their performance is continuously tracked and they're retained or terminated based on those performance metrics.

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