According to an article in the “New York Times” harassed Amazon employees, even though they are suffering from cancer or have other misfortunes behind him. CEO Jeff Bezos will not leave this lying down.
The Amazon founder had a critical report of the “New York Times” on the working conditions the World’s Largest Online traders rejected. “The article does not describe the Amazon, I know,” Bezos said in an e-mail to employees.
The “New York Times” reporter said, according to own data with more than 100 past and present Amazon employees and reported, among others, cases where people had been treated by family tragedies or health problems without compassion.
So a staff member the next day had been sent after a miscarriage on a business trip, and had cancer Employees received poor work reviews. Also total the working atmosphere was brusquely: “I have almost everyone with whom I worked, seen crying at the desk”, a former employee said in the book marketing the newspaper
The report from the weekend put individual stories about “shocking callous management practices” in the foreground , Bezos wrote. “I am convinced that everyone who works for a company, as in the” New York Times “has been described, would be crazy to stay. I know that I would leave as a company.”
At the same time Bezos called on the employees if they is heartless approach of managers known, this must be reported to the Human Resources Department or directly to him. “Even if there are rare or isolated cases, our tolerance for such a lack of compassion must be equal to zero.”
In Germany, Amazon became a few years ago in the criticism, after a TV report of poor living conditions for seasonal workers for logistics centers was mentioned. The Verdi union also tried to enforce with strike a collective agreement at the level of retail and mail order trade.
The company sees itself on the other hand as a logistics and refers to a payment on top of the customary standards.
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