Amazon's productivity monitoring system is reportedly making employees feel like robots

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Amazon employees are treated like "robots" due to an automated tracking and termination process used at fulfillment centers, reports The Verge.

The system tracks the rate of individual workers' productivity, writes The Verge, and it "automatically generates any warnings or terminations regarding quality or productivity without input from supervisors."

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Marianne is The Week’s Social Media Editor. She is a native Tennessean and recent graduate of Ohio University, where she studied journalism and political science. Marianne has previously written for The Daily Beast, The Crime Report, and The Moroccan Times.