"Working conditions inside Amazon warehouses came under scrutiny earlier this year in "Hired," a book about low-wage work in the U.K. by journalist James Bloodworth, who worked undercover at one of the retailer's English warehouses.
He depicted a workplace where workers are treated like "robots," a claim that Amazon disputed: "Actually, robots are treated better," claims Jeff Bezos."
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"Amazon, which has come under fire for treating warehouse workers "as robots," is now deflecting criticism for a 2016 patent that proposed to house workers in cages.
The patent was highlighted in a recent article by two AI researchers, who wrote that the design illustrated "an extraordinary illustration of worker alienation, a stark moment in the relationship between humans and machines."
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/amazons-patent-for-caging-workers-was-a-bad-idea-exec-admits/
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