Amazon Offers Employees $5,000 To Quit Their Jobs

by Austin Petersen

Amazon.com is offering their employees $5,000 to quit their jobs. Sound crazy? The reasoning behind the move actually makes a lot of sense.

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The popular online retailer Amazon.com, owned by libertarian Jeff Bezos, has instituted what is known as a “Pay to Quit” program for the warehouse workers. The idea behind it is to make sure that the employees actually want to be there.

In a company email, Bezos writes: “The goal is to encourage folks to take a moment and think about what they really want,” he wrote in the letter. “In the long-run, an employee staying somewhere they don’t want to be isn’t healthy for the employee or the company.”

The subject of the email being circulated is “Please Don’t Take This Offer.” The offer is made once a year and the amount of money that the company will pay increases each year they stay at the company, starting at $2,000 and stopping at $5,000.

Bezos got the idea from online shoe retailer Zappos.com, who pioneered the idea. They found that it cost more to keep employees who slowed down their fast paced environment than it did to pay them to leave.

Amazon reportedly pays about 30% more than the average retail worker.


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Austin Petersen is a homegrown Missourian with a lifelong passion for liberty. He grew up on a horse farm in Peculiar, Missouri and went on to attend Missouri State University, graduating with a degree in the Fine Arts. After developing a career in media in both New York City and Washington, D.C., he returned to Kansas City, MO, the city he now calls home. In 2016, Petersen appeared on the national stage as a candidate for president of the United States. He took second place in the crowded Libertarian primary behind Governor Gary Johnson and ahead of cyber security maverick John McAfee. During his campaign, Petersen earned many high-profile conservative endorsements, including Mary Matalin, Erick Erickson and Leon Wolf of RedState.com. Petersen also brings decades of professional experience in a wide variety of fields, from content production and media to business and political activism. He is the owner and chief executive of Stonegait LLC, a consulting firm specializing in photo and video services. He was also the director of production at FreedomWorks and an associate producer for Judge Andrew Napolitano’s show “Freedom Watch” on the Fox Business Network. Additionally, Petersen has a national following as a commentator and professional pundit. He is the founder of The Libertarian Republic, a powerful online news source for the public that receives an average of 1 million unique visits monthly and whose podcast, The Freedom Report, receives an average of one million monthly downloads. He is also a frequent contributor on television, appearing on Fox News, Fox Business, CNN, MSNBC and on dozens of local radio shows.

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