"Amazon Flex" started with Amazon's delivery on individual basis to get money

A mechanism that entrusts delivery of goods to individual drivers "Amazon", the world's largest online mail order company "Amazon FlexWe started. The driver can devote his / her favorite time to work and is able to receive shipping fee of $ 18 to $ 25 per hour (about 2200 yen ~ 3000 yen).

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Drivers who wish to work with Amazon Flex will be able to undertake work as drivers by registering from the site and registering after review. Items in charge of delivery are provided for Amazon paid members "Prime Now"We will handle products purchased using the product that must be delivered within 1 hour to 2 hours from the order. In order to become a driver, you need to be "over 21 years old" "having your own car" "having a driver's license with the deadline" "having an Android terminal" "background check It is necessary to pass "check").

Drivers can work 2 hours, 4 hours, 8 hours per day, and the setting of 12 hours is expected to be added later. It is possible to freely set work hours according to individual circumstances and style. The driver is supposed to receive a shipping fee of $ 18 to $ 25 per hour (about 2200 to 3000 yen), but whether the number of items to be delivered exists or whether the consignment will be canceled according to the number It is unknown.

Amazon has posted the slogan "Be Your Own Boss: deliver when you want, as much as you want. (You will be your own boss: deliver as much as you like at any time)" It is likely to provide a different style of free work different from.


Amazon Flex will start with Amazon based Seattle in the US and will be available later in cities in New York, Baltimore, Miami, Dallas, Austin, Chicago, Indianapolis, Atlanta, Portland I will.

Amazon Flex so to speak, individuals do taxi work using private carsUberWhere the logistics version of. People who want work and people who want to work are matched on the netGig · EconomyThe fact that Amazon entered full-scale entry into the field of the field seems to be one point.

Amazon has so far allocated work to individual workers online and pays compensation "Amazon Mechanical Turk(Amazon Mechanical Tak) ", but there is also a problem that workers publish an open letter to CEO Bezos as" reward is too cheap ".

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It seems that Amazon Flex seems to have set a relatively good remuneration amount, so it is unlikely that similar problems will occur, but it seems that interest will gather whether the new style of work will definitely be established. In addition, it is unknown whether or not it will be started on Amazon in Japan at all.