*SMLR-Net, the source of selected news on labor and employment relations and Human resource management* Title: Amazon's patent for caging workers was "bad" idea, exec admitsAuthor: Aimee Picchi

*Source: *CBS Money Watch

*Date: * Sept 11, 2018 Summary: Amazon, which has come under fire for treating warehouse workers "as robots," is now deflecting criticism for a 2016 patent that proposed to house workers in cages. Link: https://cbsn.ws/2CPFVcs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Eugene McElroy, Library Associate James Carey Library, School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 50 Labor Center Way, New Brunswick NJ 08901 848-932-9513 smlrlibrary@work.rutgers.edu http://smlr.rutgers.edu/carey-library