Exclusive: Amazon's attrition costs $8 billion annually according to leaked documents. And it gets worse.

Amazon churns through workers at an astonishing rate, well above industry averages. According to a tranche of documents marked "Amazon Confidential" provided to Engadget and not previously reported on, that staggering attrition now has an associated cost. "[Worldwide] Consumer Field Operations is experiencing high levels of attrition (regretted and unregretted) across all levels, totaling an estimated $8 billion annually for Amazon and its shareholders," one of the documents, authored earlier th...