Friday 21 August 2015

Guest Article: Weekly reMix – The Amazon Explosion Edition by Melissa Fairman

Unless you’ve been living under a rock this week, there has been a ton of discussion around a blistering article written by The New York Times about the work culture at Amazon.  The article paints a very dark picture of a place where employees put in 85+ hour work weeks and are penalized when they have to take time off for family or medical reasons.  

 

There are a ton of rebuttals and confirmations floating around the Twitters this week and I would encourage you to read a couple before you convict Amazon. In my experience it is very difficult to get a feel for what a large company like Amazon is like.  Anyway,  here is the best of what I read this week on Amazon and everything else:

 

Inside Amazon – Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace – the expose that started it all.  

Jeff Bezos Dismisses Claims That Amazon is a Soulless Dystopian Workplace – via The Verge.

The Mistakes of Writing About Company Culture – via Scott Berkun

Amazon.com – Its Complicated – an excellent wrap up of the news via Victorio Milian

Maybe Amazon’s New World of Work Isn’t for Me via Ron Thomas at TLNT

 

And all the other news/opinion in the HR sphere this week:

 

The 5 Managerial Responses to Sabotage at Work via Kris Dunn

The Transparency Advantage: Informed Employees Are Engaged Employees via TLNT

What Separates Great HR Leaders from the Rest via HBR

A New Platform Makes Parental Leave Easier on Companies and Parents via Fast Company

The Biggest Networking Truth Revealed via Jay Kuhns at No Excuses HR

 

Social Media:

The Wisdom of Tide Pools!! via Steve Browne

Everything You Say and Do is Public – 5 Rules For Living With The Internet via The Verge

 

Non-HR stuff I read this week:

 

Wizard Wars via Scott Adams.  Get through the Wizard part and this is an interesting piece on influence.  

The Permanent Rules via Seth Godin

Company That Blocked Wi-Fi Hotspots at At Conventions Must Pay $750k Fine via Fast Company.


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