Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace

[Cinisajoy]

Originally Posted by pidgeon92

Yep, Discover Card is giving 5% cash back on purchases up to $1500.

Some Visas too.

[SteveEisenberg]

Originally Posted by John F

I think this is related to the original NY Times article.

http://www.siliconbeat.com/2015/10/1...k-times-story/

Wow.

It's not just that Dean Baquet, without histronics or character assassination, demolishes Jay Carney's "What The New York Times Didn’t Tell You." It's that Carney resorted to personal character assassination of an ex-employee.

Carney, a former White House press secretary, writes like he was back in the James Brady Briefing Room bashing the political opposition. I am disappointed to read nothing about how Amazon is working to make their company a more humane place to work.

[WillAdams]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

I suspect you'll save a lot of money if you only purchase from companies that never put business ahead of their employees personal lives.

I work for one of, if not the, largest privately-owned printer in the U.S., and it's run by the family of the founder, and employees are treated as family. It's a great place to work.

One notable company which I always feel good about purchasing from is Lee Valley, which has been in the news as a notable example of leveling the pay slope: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...ticle15472738/

I'd really like to see the pay slope published for all publicly held companies.

[WillAdams]

Originally Posted by Angst

According to this report Amazon contracts it's warehouse workers from ISS. They wouldn't be employees of Amazon. I'm not sure if this applies only to Pennsylvania or not.

Amazon also does direct-to-hire for warehouse positions. You can verify this through job postings on their website.

[fjtorres]

Round two:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/20/bu...icle.html?_r=1

Now to see Carney's response.
You don't hire Carney for one 1300 page rebuttal; you hire him to go to war.

Speaking of hires:

http://www.nbcnews.com/business/busi...t-year-n447706

Amazon plans to hire 100,000 people for the holidays, a 25 percent jump from last year that reveals a shift in the way we shop.

The online retailer said Tuesday that it will be hiring across the country for jobs in its fulfillment and sorting facilities. The Seattle company recently hired more than 25,000 people for regular, full-time positions. It hired 80,000 workers last year for the holidays.

Doesn't sound like those 25,000 folks were scared off by the NYT:

Amazon stands out among retailers, with holiday hiring expected to remain largely unchanged, according to a report from Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

[tubemonkey]

Here's Amazon's press release:

Amazon Creating More Than 100,000 Seasonal Jobs

The company recently hired 25,000 regular, full-time employees in advance of the holiday season

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 20, 2015-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced it is creating 100,000 seasonal positions across its U.S. network of fulfillment and sortation centers this holiday season in order to meet the increase in customer demand. In the months leading up to this holiday season, Amazon has also hired tens of thousands of regular, full-time employees.

“We’ve hired more than 25,000 full-time associates across the U.S. in recent months and we’re looking forward to adding 100,000 seasonal employees for the upcoming holiday season,” said Mike Roth, Amazon’s vice president of North America operations. “Following last year’s holiday season, tens of thousands of seasonal employees found regular, full-time roles with Amazon. We’re excited to grow our team by finding great talent through our seasonal hiring efforts in addition to creating new full-time jobs that offer comprehensive benefits starting on day one.”

[Cinisajoy]

Wishing I lived closer so I could take advantage of employee discount.

[SteveEisenberg]

Originally Posted by fjtorres

You don't hire Carney for one 1300 page rebuttal; you hire him to go to war.

This seems to me a good example of Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace.