Amazon’s Answer to Delivery Driver Shortage: Recruit Pot Smokers

By using the same metric they user to evaluate engineers, they can measure if drivers are meeting expectations. Are they meeting expectations or causing problems in the workplace? If you get off work and take a toke, it may not affect your performance vs having a drink. Even occasional users can be banned from work because it stays in the system longer than any other drug.

It would be interesting to see a study on how substance use affects employee performance, including nicotine and alcohol. Clear evidence of correlations with earning potential may convince people to reduce or eliminate use. If there is a degrade with pot use and Amazon is willing to pay less for it, so be it.

What a great article.

> Doing so can boost the number of job applicants by as much as 400%, Amazon says in one message, without explaining how it came up with the statistic.

> [...] said one, who requested anonymity to discuss the issue because Amazon discourages delivery company owners from speaking to the media.

So as usual, and as the article even mentions, there is no "employee shortage". There is a employee equilibrium at the shitty wage Amazon pays.

This should go on the list of desperately misleading titles along with "Drug XYZ shown to cure cancer [...in mice]"