"I do not say" Amazon's way of doing it is right ", but it is a culture rooted in 20 years," remarked Bezos

BySam Churchill

Amazon has achieved the annual sales of 100 billion dollars (about 11 trillion yen) at the fastest ever in history. Before letting Jeff Bezos touch the concrete performance in a letter to the shareholders reporting that feat, he argued about the poor employment environment of Amazon pointed out by leading media, saying, "What is Amazon culture? "Is explained. The words of Bezos are what conveys something of Amazon's strength source that supports the breakthrough of bamboo.

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The hardship of Amazon's workplace environmentReporters' impersonation reports experienced warehouse workersIt was decided widely from such as. Among them, the American newspaper The New York Times reported in August 2015 "Amazon's internal circumstances: fight with big ideas in harsh workplaces"Attracted attention as Amazon's workplace environment clearly revealed based on employee's testimony, arguing from Amazon and refusing the The New York Times side again, the discussion heated up It was.

You can check the battle between Amazon and The New York Times in the following article.

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


Bezos was criticizing the content of the article, "The content of the article of The New York Times is not Amazon I know," but in the performance report to the shareholders about eight months after the article was posted, Although we are rebutting against the article of The New York Times again.

Prior to mentioning concrete performance trends, Bezos said in a press report to investors reporting Amazon's achievements that reached the fastest annual sales of $ 100 billion (about 11 trillion yen) One word "and explains Amazon's" company color ".

Better or better, Amazon's corporate culture is permanently changing in a patient and hard way. It can be advantageously disadvantageous as well.
It has been cultivated by employees and events over the years.
A story of past success and a story of failure have been inherited in a deep part of the company.
If it is a unique culture, there are people who fit like custom-made gloves, others will not fit.
The reason why the corporate culture is stable is because the employee voluntarily chose it. People with a competitive passion will choose a corporate culture, and those who love the spirit of exploitation and invention will also choose another corporate culture.
What I'd like to say is that thankfully Amazon is full of many excellent employees and unique corporate culture.
I do not intend to claim that "our way of doing is right". But it has been built by people with the same will over the past two decades. People who found passion and significance in Amazon's way.

Bezos' remarks seems to be interpreted as "passionless people, non-ability people leave" depending on their viewpoint, but Amazon's expansion of Amazon in the past two decades has come from Amazon's CEO Bezos It is an undeniable fact that it is a corporate culture. Bezos' CEO's explanation of Amazon's corporate culture for investors earlier than anything else is that investors are urged investors to "choose" whether to buy Amazon culture and that they will not change Amazon's way in the future It may be said that a strong determination of resolve.

ByXabier Cid