The undercover author who discovered Amazon warehouse workers were peeing in bottles tells us the culture was like a prison (AMZN)

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• The author who discovered that Amazon warehouse staff were peeing in bottles to avoid taking too many breaks said the working culture was like a prison.
• James Bloodworth went undercover in 2016 to work at an Amazon warehouse in the UK, for a book on low-paid jobs in Britain.
• He described to Business Insider how he had been collecting items as a “picker” and came across a bottle of urine on the shelf.
• Bloodworth said people didn’t have enough time for a proper lunch break, and were penalised for sick days.
• Amazon didn’t recognise the picture painted by Bloodworth. It said workers could use the toilet whenever they needed, and that they were not monitored.

Working in an Amazon warehouse is like prison, according to an author who went undercover at a fulfilment centre and found staff were peeing in bottles because they had no time to go to the toilet.

James Bloodworth investigated casual work and its impact on people’s lives for his book “Hired: Six Months in Low-Wage Britain.” For research, he took low-paid jobs at an Amazon warehouse, in social care, a call centre, a building site, and as an Uber driver to explore how people coped.

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