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🗓️ 4 December 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Progressive Insurance, whether you love true crime or comedy, celebrity interviews or news, you call the shots on what's in your podcast cue. |
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0:28.4 | to join the over 29 million drivers who trust Progressive. |
0:32.2 | Progressive Casualty Insurance Company and |
0:34.0 | Affiliates. Pricing coverage match limited by state law. While you've been clicking around the internet looking for last minute holiday deals, |
0:50.0 | Caroline O'Donovan, for the Washington Post, has been reporting about the people who make those |
0:55.0 | deals possible, the people packing up your gifts and shipping them out. |
1:00.6 | At Amazon they call this time of year peak season, where you're getting more and more packages |
1:07.9 | as people take advantage of holiday sales. |
1:10.4 | So they don't call it the most magical time of the year. No. |
1:14.0 | Peak season means more work, more money, but also some employees say, more risk. |
1:22.0 | Over the last couple of years, Caroline's examined one report after another, |
1:26.0 | each of them looking to quantify this risk. |
1:30.0 | There was one claiming that a hundred Amazon warehouse workers are injured each day. |
1:35.0 | Another said the risk of getting injured at an Amazon warehouse was double the risk |
1:41.0 | of getting injured at a Walmart facility. |
1:44.0 | Then there was this Department of Labor investigation |
1:47.4 | in Fort Wayne, Indiana. |
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