Amazon’s founder has sent an email to the company’s 183,000 employees to rebut a damning expose of its working conditions.
Jeff Bezos insisted the online retailer was not a ‘soulless, dystopian workplace’ as suggested by a US newspaper investigation.
He said staff would be ‘crazy’ to work under such conditions, adding that the story ‘doesn’t describe the Amazon I know’.
Bezos included his personal email address and urged anyone with a problem to contact him.
It came in response to a New York Times article claiming that Amazon workers regularly cry at their desks, and that employees are pushed so far past breaking point they ‘practically combust’.
Some of the 100-plus current and former staff interviewed for the piece also claimed workers are kept on their toes by annual culls that an HR manager described as ‘purposeful Darwinism’.
Bezos wrote to staff: ‘I don’t recognize this Amazon and I very much hope you don’t, either. I don’t think any company adopting the approach portrayed could survive, much less thrive.’
According to Forbes, Bezos is the 15th richest man on the planet with a fortune of £30.1billion.
Amazon declined to comment on his internal memo. – Daily Mail