the world's largest retailer Amazon is firing back after a scathing report depicted it as a bruising workplace it's described as a Cutthroat corporate jungle where workers are pitted against one another 80-hour work weeks are the norm and falling ill can mean you're out of a job but let's step back for a moment is it really that intense tonight former employees give their side to our Cynthia mcfaden Amazon may have one of just about everything on its massive shelves this one of its many fulfillment centers the size of 28 football fields the company has become the
most highly valued retailer in the world outranking Walmart but as other tech companies outdo each other with employee benefits for example Netflix recently announced it would give a year-long parental leave to male and female employees an article in Sunday's New York Times suggests Amazon is taking a contrary Direction there is definitely a sense from people that we talk to that Amazon does not really care about their personal lives you can't reveal any weaknesses or you will be in trouble even an Amazon recruitment video acknowledges it isn't the work environment for everyone you love it or
you don't there is you know no middle ground really the times recount several alarming anecdotes from former employees from one who said nearly every person I work with I saw cry at their desk men included to a woman who miscarried twins but went on a business trip the next day her boss she says told her I'm sorry the work is still going to need to get done and another woman who had thyroid cancer and was given a low performance rating after she returned from treatment but today Nadia shora told us in her nine years as
an executive at Amazon that's not what she saw when I read the article it sounded absolutely horrible but it just didn't resonate with a company I worked for for many years in a CNBC documentary last year John Rosman and Randy Miller former Executives at Amazon said CEO Jeff Bezos does set a high bar he has a low tolerance for thinking small acting small or not being extremely sharp or rationalizing if you start giving rationalizations and excuses or point in the other direction he'll just he'll sash it the TR he's got a very effective sarc ftic
bent but that certainly wasn't the tone Bezos took in an email yesterday to his 150,000 employees telling them he wouldn't want to work for the company described by the times and saying quote hopefully you don't recognize the company described hopefully you're having fun with a bunch of brilliant teammates helping invent the future and laughing along the way ler all right Cynthia Hey NBC News fans thanks for checking out our YouTube channel subscribe by clicking on that button down here and then click on any of the videos over here to watch the latest interviews show highlights
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