{"id":10389,"date":"2023-11-07T06:59:13","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T06:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=10389"},"modified":"2023-11-07T07:49:33","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T07:49:33","slug":"work-amazon-flex-hours-capping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=10389","title":{"rendered":"WORK: Amazon Flex Hours Capping"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rqK--GBOO0o?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">This video explains it better than Amazon do!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve been experiencing extreme difficulty booking sufficient hours to meet my weekly budgeting target, driving for Amazon. There are numerous reasons. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of these, which I only just learned about, is the capping policy they operate. As the video above explains, they cap weekly hours at a total of 24. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s more to it than that, though, as the video explains. One of the issues is that I don\u2019t want to be wasting time trying to book more shifts when the app simply won\u2019t let me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amazon should def\u2019 make a change to the Flex app, IMO, such that it lets you know when you\u2019re no longer able to book any further work. This would prevent folk like me wasting time hitting \u2018refresh\u2019 at times when doing so is purely wasting time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I\u2019vw submitted that idea, via the Flex \u2018feedback\u2019 page\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been experiencing extreme difficulty booking sufficient hours to meet my weekly budgeting target, driving for Amazon. There are numerous reasons. One of these, which I only just learned about, is the capping policy they operate. As the video above explains, they cap weekly hours at a total of 24. There\u2019s more to it than &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=10389\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;WORK: Amazon Flex Hours Capping&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-2Hz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10389"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10389"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10391,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10389\/revisions\/10391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}