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Meet the CamperForce, Amazon's Nomadic Retiree Army (wired.com)
5 points by i4i on Sept 16, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


If you're curious what this is about, many paragraphs down, it finally explains:

"In the mid-2000s, Amazon had a problem. Every year, the company scrambled to find temporary workers during the peak months of hectic commerce leading up to Christmas. In some areas of the country, reliable on-demand labor was so hard to come by that it resorted to busing in workers from three to five hours away. Then, in 2008, a staffing agency came up with something new: inviting a team of migrant RVers to work at the facility in Coffeyville, Kansas."




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