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According to Amazon's 2013 shareholder's letter, the company borrowed a strategy from Zappos in which it pledges to pay up to $5,000 for their warehouse workers to leave their jobs. The program, called "Pay To Quit", hopes to retain only the employees who want their jobs by literally offering to pay them to quit, starting at $2,000 and growing each year up to $5,000. [Business Insider]