Amazon And The Future Of American Work (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

Move over Wal-Mart. Amazon – as in Amazon.com – is now the world’s biggest retailer. But this week, Amazon is dealing with maybe the world’s biggest headache. A huge article, expose, in the New York Times has painted the work life Amazon’s of employees as a kind of living hell. A “Hunger Games” of brutal hours and assessments. Heartless and backstabbing. Everyone crying at their desks. Amazon says give us a break. It’s not that bad. But the company is striving and winning and makes no apologies for either. This hour On Point: the Amazon way, and the future of work.
Interview:
http://onpoint.wbur.org/2015/08/19/amazon-work-life-balance-work-culture