Amazon offers staff thousands to quit, to test loyalty
測試員工忠誠度，亞馬遜有奇招：給你千元美金做選擇
SEATTLE, U.S. - Employee loyalty is a big thing at Amazon - which reportedly has a unique way of testing it.
美國，西雅圖——於亞馬遜而言，員工忠誠度至關重要，據報道，亞馬遜有自己獨特的方式去測試員工的忠誠度。
Amazon boss and the world’s richest man, Jeff Bezos reportedly gives some of his employees an unusual offer each year - to accept a pile of cash and quit the company or decide to stay on.
據報道，亞馬遜老闆、世界首富傑夫·貝佐斯每年都會給他的一些員工一個提議，給一筆錢做選擇，是拿錢走人還是留在公司。
Bezos, according to reports, offers some employees the unusual offer of taking $6,600 and never come back.
據報道，貝佐斯提出一個提議，給一些員工6600美元，讓他們拿了錢走人，再也不回來公司。
Reports also noted that once a year, the company offers to pay full-time associates at Amazon fulfilment centres up to $5.000 to leave the company, but there’s a catch - If these employees take the money and run, they can never work for Amazon again.
報道還指出，每年，該公司會向亞馬遜物流中心的全職員工支付高達5000美元的薪水，讓他們離開公司，但這是一個陷阱——如果這些員工拿了錢走人，他們就再也不能為亞馬遜工作了。
Currently, Amazon has 75 fulfilment centres across the United States and Canada — which is basically what the company calls its warehouses and shipping centres — where more than 125,000 full-time employees work.
目前，亞馬遜在美國和加拿大有75家物流中心，這基本上就是該公司所稱的倉庫和航運中心，有超過12.5萬名全職員工在那裡工作。
And while it isn’t a huge sum of money, and taking the extra cash could be tempting - Amazon doesn’t actually want people to accept the offer.
雖然這並不是一筆鉅款，但是收取額外的現金確實很有吸引力，但實際上亞馬遜並不希望員工接受這一提議。
Reports noted that when people actually receive the annual “pay to quit” ultimatum, the headline of the email reads - “Please Don’t Take This Offer.”
有報道指出，當人們實際上收到了年度“離職金”的最後通牒時，電子郵件的標題是:“請不要接受這個提議。”
In 2014, in a letter to shareholders, Bezos outlined the reasoning behind the unusual practice.
2014年，貝佐斯在致股東的一封信中概述了這種獨特做法背後的原因。
He reportedly wrote, “We hope they don’t take the offer; we want them to stay. Why do we make this offer? The goal is to encourage folks to take a moment and think about what they really want. In the long-run, an employee staying somewhere they don’t want to be isn’t healthy for the employee or the company.”
據報道，他寫道:“ 我們希望他們不要接受這個提議;我們希望他們留下來。我們之所以提出這個提議，是為了鼓勵人們花點時間思考他們真正想要的是什麼。從長遠來看，一個員工呆在一個他們不喜歡的地方，無論是對員工本身還是對公司，都是百害而無一益。”
According to reports, the idea actually originated from a shoe company called Zappos which Amazon acquired in 2009.
據報道，這一想法實際上源於一家名為ZAPPOS的鞋業公司，亞馬遜在2009收購了這家公司。
At the time, the shoe company would extend the same offer to staff for just $1,000.
當時，這家鞋業公司將向員工提供的“離職金”僅為1000美元。
But after acquiring the firm, Amazon incorporated the idea, which has lived on since then.
但在收購該公司後，亞馬遜採納了這一想法，自那時起，這一種測試方法就一直存在。
However, problems related to low pay still haunt the company.
然而，與低工資有關的問題仍然困擾著公司。
Last month, hundreds of Amazon warehouse workers from Germany, Poland and Italy protested outside a building in Berlin where inside Bezos was scheduled to receive an award for innovation.
上個月，數百名來自德國、波蘭和意大利的亞馬遜倉庫工人在柏林的一棟建築外抗議，貝佐斯原本安排在那裡領取創新獎。
Protesters said that Amazon pays too little and offers too few benefits.
抗議者稱，亞馬遜工資少，福利也少。
Then, last week, a similar demonstration was held by one of the U.K.’s biggest trade unions who protested outside an Amazon event in Manchester.
上週，英國最大的工會之一舉行了類似的示威活動，他們在曼徹斯特亞馬遜事件外抗議。
The protest was over the way the retail giant treats its warehouse workers.
抗議活動結束了這家零售巨頭對待倉庫工人的方式。
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