Understanding Amazon’s Hire to Fire Policy

Understanding Amazon’s Hire to Fire Policy

What is Hire to Fire policy?

Hire to fire is nothing but a concept is to hire only those people you know that you are going to fire eventually in the future. This policy is used much more often by companies than you think. What are the benefits of doing soo, you may ask? There are tons of benefits; first, a newly hired employee is cheap, you are required to provide your employees with a raise after some time, but when you hire a new employee, you can hire them on the initial salary for that position. 

Second, The blame game. Sometimes, the people in a senior position use the junior employees as a shield for their mess. 

You will be surprised to know that even Amazon has been blamed for using this policy. However, we are not here to give any judgment. We are here just to inform you about everything that we came across while doing our research, and everything stated in this blog is all statements and observations. We neither accept nor deny anything and neither are we making any claims. They are all statements.

Ok, I think I have given enough disclaimer. Now, allow me to provide you with the information regarding Amazon Hire To Fire Policy.

Amazon’s Hire To Fire Policy

Amazon has been indicted for hiring workers only to let them go within a time. According to a recent report, several directors working with the e-commerce giant have said that they've to do this to meet their internal turnover. The controversial practice is called “hire-to-fire" internally. Three directors at Amazon have reportedly said that they faced tremendous pressure to meet the annual turnovers, known as unregretted attrition (URA), that they hired workers to fire them so that they could save the rest of the department.

As outlined in the report by Business Insider, The actuality of the practice in some units of the company has the eventuality of fuelling controversial morals and practices. As per internal documents that the publication said it had attained. Indeed most elderly Amazon directors, including incoming CEO Andy Jassy, carefully track their URA pretensions. The publication quoted; the illustration of the Amazon Web Services brigades that fell suddenly of URA pretensions in 2020 and were needed to make up the difference in 2021, as per a company memo it assessed. Still, in a statement to the publication, Amazon's spokesperson denied that the company hires workers intending to fire them. The speaker also said Amazon doesn't use the expression “hire-to-fire.” 

Since the report was published, Amazon workers have started speaking about the practice on online forums. On Y Combinator's Hacker News forum, a person with the username “ throwawaySlu,” who claimed to be working as a star software development mastermind at Amazon, said the company's weakest link was its directors. Competent software development directors (SDMs) are “ far and few,” the person added, explaining in detail how numerous SDMs demanded specialized depth and how able masterminds “ are thrown under the machine” because of unskillful directors. 

Another stoner, Vanusa, thanked the person who spoke about the issues at Amazon and said, “ Thanks, seriously, for sharing. Just hope you do not get, uh,‘ plant out by the wrong SDM."

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