Amazon’s white-collar sweatshop

Amazon's workplace culture has come in for heavy criticism from The New York Times.

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With September only a fortnight away, you may be away from your desk, soaking up the last of the summer sun. But even if you aren't, you might be able to console yourself, as you glance around a half-empty office, with this thought: at least you don't work at Amazon. A profile in the New York Times paints a picture of the internet giant as the white-collar equivalent of a sweatshop, even for senior staff. Employees are expected to "tear apart one another's ideas in meetings, toil long and late, and [are] held to standards that the company boasts are unreasonably high'".

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