Working in Amazon...

Amazon is an American electronic commerce and cloud computing company that stands to be the largest internet-based retailer in the US. According to an article on DailyMail, new investigations claims Amazon employees often break down in tears due to their working conditions. Employees are said to work 80 hours a week and there are reports of regular sackings to create culture of ‘purposeful Darwinism’.
This conditions, described by more than 100 workers, sees employees crying at their desks to annual staff culls designed to foster a culture of fear and merciless conditions at the company. Bosses are said to push staff till breaking point. According to the expose, the company’s best workers are known as ‘Amabots’ – because they are so ‘at one with the system’ they are almost cyborgs.
More than 100 current and former Amazon workers were interviewed for the New York Times investigation. Employees are encouraged to report on their colleagues’ progress to bosses using a feedback tool, which lets them criticise or praise others discreetly. Some workers even claimed that staff who had been diagnosed with cancer or suffered miscarriages were not given enough time to recover.
Former marketing executive Bo Olson described the ruthless culture, saying: ‘You walk out of a conference room and you’ll see a grown man covering his face.
‘Nearly every person I worked with I saw cry at their desk’.
The investigation claims that Amazon retains workers by making them repay some of their signing bonus if they leave within a year. They also have to return some relocation money if they resign within two years.
Among other bizarre revelations was a claim that Amazon has installed a button in the toilets to call for a replacement loo roll, so employees do not have to track down a cleaner.
Amazon took £5.3billion in sales last year, while founder Jeff Bezos has a fortune of £30.1billion, according to Forbes.
A spokesman for Amazon declined to comment, but referred the Mail to an online blog by Nick Ciubotariu from its Search Experience department. He wrote that some of the claims in the article were ‘completely false’ and accused the New York Times of writing sensationalist ‘reader bait’



Culled from DailyMail