Germany works itself into a shopping frenzy during the holiday season. From PlayStations to bicycles, more and more presents are purchased online. That means backbreaking labor for employees at distribution centers, where workers have to lift countless packages from conveyor belts, sort them into bins and then load them onto trucks. BIEK, the German parcel-shipping lobby, estimates that workers will have sorted and distributed about 355 million packages in 2019 — up 7 percent from last year. In order to handle that load, logistics companies are increasingly turning to temporary workers, thousands of them.
Deutsche Welle: DHL’s Ukrainian temps experience the dark side of Christmas
DHL Express Ukraine workers sort packages in the company's Kyiv headquarters on March 17, 2016.
