Are Amazon's Workplace Practices Abnormal Or Abusive?
Law360, New York ( September 1, 2015, 10:05 AM EDT) -- Many of you likely had the opportunity to read The New York Times expose on employment attitudes and conditions within Amazon.com Inc. It makes for a good summer beach read. The article paints a picture of aggressive and uncaring management, employer-sanctioned back-biting among co-workers, long hours, few vacations and a lot of time away from family. White-collar workers at other computer-based companies, such as Netflix Inc., Facebook Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Google Inc. are likely shocked. However, blue-collar workers in America that work one or two jobs, totaling 60-plus hours per week away from their families and who don't get the chance to take a vacation, are unmoved and not crying in their milk. There is no doubt that Amazon is not a workplace utopia, but the real questions are whether there is anything abnormal or unlawful about what is going on at Amazon?...
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