Employees Are Using A.I. Bots to Snag Spots on Their Vacation Calendar
A.I. could force humans to work less. But in one weird way, it's already HELPING us work less . . . Using bots to snag open slots on your company's VACATION CALENDAR is a new trend. It's become a problem at Amazon warehouses. Amazon employees have two types of unpaid time off they can take. One is normal unpaid vacation, and there's a limit to how much you can take. The other is "Voluntary Time Off" or VTO, where your boss decides they don't need as many people working. VTO doesn't count against your vacation time, so there's a lot of competition when [...]