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[camay2327]

Check this out.   Not a bad idea...

 

Amazon offers workers $5,000 to quit, but it’s not crazy

On first hearing, it sounds almost insane – every year, Amazon (AMZN) offers workers in its distribution warehouses up to $5,000 to quit. Why would a company ask employees to quit and why in the world would it pay them to do so?

 

But like many of the unusual practices adopted under Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, the pay-to-quit policy is grounded in data. The goal of the offer is to encourage unmotivated and disaffected employees to leave on their own, while making employees who reject the offer feel more dedicated to the job.

 

Delivered with the headline “Please Don’t Take This Offer,” the pay-to-quit offers start at $2,000 for an employee’s first year and rise by $1,000 a year up to a maximum of $5,000.

 

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[Rich_T]

And what do they do when the $5,000 (or less) runs out in a couple of months?

 

Sounds like a clueless move by someone who doesn't understand how tough it is out there.  It's not about being "happy" working in a distribution center, it's about economic need.  You can't say that the ones who declined the offer must therefore be happy to work there.  They don't see any better alternative at the moment.  And they should only accept the offer if they have already found a better job elsewhere.

 

I've seen plenty of people been paid to leave in companies - it's called layoffs with severance pay.  But it wasn't voluntary.