Online retail giant, Amazon, has been under fire for its abusive workplace practice. In response to all the reports that came out, Amazon's top honcho, Jeff Bezos responded to safeguard the firm he has built.
New York Times published over the weekend, a report on Amazon describing its working environment as degrading and demanding.
In response, Jeff Bezos, Amazon's boss wrote to staff in a memo that the "article doesn't describe the Amazon I know."
BBC News reported one former employee said, "Nearly every person I worked with, I saw cry at their desk," as quoted from The New York Times article.
Included in the report were attestations from 100 former and current employees who painted a "bruising" workplace at the online retail company, where workers were expected to "toil long and late."
There some who claimed Amazon edged out employees who were experiencing personal ordeals, including cancer and miscarriages.
The article also cited that the workplace practice calls for workers to reply to emails even after midnight. If in case they don't, they will get messages through text demanding a quick response.
"While we generally do not comment on individual news stories, we quickly saw current Amazon employees react," said an Amazon press representative.
According to The Telegraph, Jeff Bezos rebuffed claims that his company used brutal workplace strategies to make the most out of its personnel and said that the recent depiction of Amazon does not complement with what he observed.
"The NYT article prominently features anecdotes describing shockingly callous management practices, including people being treated without empathy while enduring family tragedies and serious health problems. The article doesn't describe the Amazon I know or the caring Amazonians I work with every day," said Bezos in an email letter.
"The article goes further than reporting isolated anecdotes. It claims that our intentional approach is to create a soulless, dystopian workplace where no fun is had and no laughter heard. Again, I don't recognize this Amazon and I very much hope you don't, either. More broadly, I don't think any company adopting the approach portrayed could survive, much less thrive, in today's highly competitive tech hiring market."
"I strongly believe that anyone working in a company that really is like the one described in the NYT would be crazy to stay. I know I would leave such a company," Bezos continued.
Meanwhile, Amazon's chief executive revealed that getting Jeremy Clarkson and his team in "Top Gear" was "very, very, very expensive."
Clarkson who was fired by BBC last March was followed by co-presenters James May and Richard Hammond together with "Top Gear" producer Andy Williams to walk out the door and signed a new show for the firm's streaming service, Amazon's Instant Video, as per CNET.
