
Newsweek
Amazon neglected to adopt key safety recommendations from internal studies in an effort to keep productivity up, according to a U.S. Senate committee report. Two internal Amazon studies—Project Elderwand (2021) and Project Soteria (2020)—identified direct connections between work speed and increased risk of injuries. Project Elderwand, which focused on workers handling items from robotic shelves, concluded that exceeding 1,940 repetitive movements per 10-hour shift elevated the risk of back injuries. The team proposed mandatory "microbreaks" tailored to individual workers' rates, but the team stated that the success of a mini...