Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos reacted about the negative story published on August 15 on the New York Times, regarding the ruthless management practices inside the Amazon workplace. He's attesting that the report is a false accusation. Hence, he's persuading the employees to email him or approach the HR concerning the matter.
"I strongly believe that anyone working in a company that really is like the one described in the NYT would be crazy to stay. I know I would leave such a company," Bezos stated in a letter he sent to his employees published on Geek Wire.
Bezos goes on saying that it doesn't describe the Amazon he knows and it doesn't represent the place where he used to work every day. More to that, he said nobody can tolerate that rough treatment in the company. Likewise, the CEO insists that he's not informed about it, would there be isolated cases that happened in the past. Even so, the employees are free to quit and move to other jobs if they are against the company rules.
The CEO is encouraging its employees to approach him in email (jeff@amazon.com) or the Human Resource Department for similar concerns. In spite all of the negative issues, Bezos hopes the employees are pleased with Amazon's environment.
This is in response to a damaging report by the New York Times specifying every detail that Amazon employees had experienced over the years. According to the NYT, they had interviewed 100 present and past Amazon employees from corporate executives and engineers to marketers.
One shocking quote from Bo Olson, who's assigned in books marketing says, "Nearly every person I worked with, I saw cry at their desk."
He admitted he's one of them, enduring his work for only less than a couple of years. He had watched how employees weep. "You walk out of a conference room and you'll see a grown man covering his face," Olson added.
Dealing with the issue, Amazon Head of Infrastructure Development Nick Ciubotariu wrote in LinkedIn, "The NYT article is so blatantly incorrect, and additionally, purposefully designed to make past data reflect current reality at a company that has done quite a bit to change its ways and continues to work hard to do so."
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