Amazon is offering warehouse workers more pay to transfer to its grocery unit as demand continues to surge

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• Amazon is offering its warehouse workers higher pay if they transfer to its grocery delivery unit. 
• The retailer is trying to entice its warehouse workers to take up new positions picking and packing groceries for delivery at its Whole Foods stores as demand continues to surge.
• These employees could make $2 more per hour if they were to switch. 
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Amazon is offering higher pay to recruit its own warehouse employees to pick and pack Whole Foods groceries amid rising demand and a worker shortage, according to an internal document reviewed by Reuters.

This move, known as labor sharing, highlights how the ecommerce giant is reallocating some of its vast workforce to handle a spike in online sales of groceries, as millions of American are stuck at home amid the COVID-19 outbreak.

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