What is the work environment where Amazon criticism and praise interferes?

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Amazon is settled for the second quarter of 2015Market value exceeded $ 250 billion (about 31 trillion yen)Wal-Mart, the world's largest retail store, for the first time since its founding. Even though everyone has heard about Amazon worldwide, Amazon's labor environment is enormously enveloped by confidentiality agreements that employees connect. We interview former employees and current employees to clarify the Amazon's unknown labor environment by the New York Times in the United States, and the whole picture has become clear a little.

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Amazon has listed the "leadership philosophy" that each employee is a leader as a corporate culture,Recruitment siteBut it is open to the public. There are 14 creeds in all in the leadership philosophy, based on which the behavioral philosophy of Amazon employees and company rules are made. Because of this leadership philosophy, it is the reason why we deliver products quickly, dealing with new businesses and services that competitors do not develop, solving any problems that arise, and being at the top of the online shopping service is.


However, interviews with former employees have revealed that the leadership philosophy that supports Amazon has aspects that adversely affect the work environment of employees. For example, one of the 14 creeds is "thrifty". The outline of thrift is "We do not dare use money for what is not important for our customers.The spirit of thrift is to create ingenuity to make effective use of resources, self-reliance, furthermore to invent It is said that it will be a source to raise, the number of staff, budget, fixed costs are not good as much. "It seems that you can concentrate on acquiring and maintaining trust from users by sparing.

However, due to the spiritual philosophy, Amazon employees pay traveling expenses by themselves, and desks and mobile phones that work every day are only provided with the minimum necessary. Another idea "to have a different opinion but to commit" is to say, "If you can not agree, if you disagree with respect and decide to make a decision, you will commit totally committed" There are things that my idea is subject to attack by my colleagues and sometimes written by feedback.

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"The workplace environment that sometimes criticizes colleagues with a strict attitude is particularly hard for female employees who value human relationships," said the interview with The New York Times on Women who worked at Amazon . Amazon also has problems with women's workplace environment compared to other IT companies, and in the case of Michelle Williamson who has three children at the age of 41 and has worked at Amazon, the boss "takes time Child-raising will not bring you success, indeed, there are no results than other young employees, how about shifting to a more comfortable department? " In addition, the boss who advised Williamson worked more than 85 hours a week, and he said that he rarely applied for vacation.

In addition, a woman who had been suffering from breast cancer during Amazon occupation was deemed to be "difficult to attain the goal due to problems in private life" and received a "rehabilitation program" called "Performance Improvement Plan". It seems that this woman who had been given a re-education program without being given a period to treat cancer was "felt very strict".

It is quite natural that there are people who do not agree with the workplace environment created by Amazon's strict corporate philosophy, Bo Olson says that he has worked for 2 years in the book marketing department, "I am a colleague who worked together "I have seen many are crying on the desk," John Rossman, Amazon's former official, says, "Many of the employees feel that" the worst and wonderful place to work "is working" And the workplace environment.

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However, some people feel that Amazon's workplace environment is bad, others do not. Stephenie Landry, who served as Head of Business Division at Amazon and was involved in launching Prime Now, a paid membership service Amazon Prime said, "When I ordered dolls that I could not find in New York at Amazon, only 23 "We arrived at the current talk became possible because we faithfully kept the leadership philosophy.We are committed to doing our utmost to make the moments customers are happy. We will work on solution, "he says, and understand that the tough leadership philosophy supports Amazon.

On the other hand, "There are many things that is not accurate for interviews with Amazon's former employees by The New York Times"Bloggers to refuteThere is also. What opposes the article of The New York Times is said to be an employee working at Amazon's AWS (Amazon Web Services)Tim Bray"I have never seen a person crying in the same workplace, traveling expenses are not on my own belly and there is no excessive overtime", "I assert that Amazon's workplace environment is no problem for me" Opinions on Amazon's working environment are intermingled with praise and criticism.