IDG Contributor Network: Here’s why tech companies should avoid the Amazon workplace culture problem
Data rules the world, right? Not when it comes to your employees.
I’m the product of a callous corporate culture, one that almost squeezed the life out of me in the '90s. I didn’t like how upper management used meritocracy as a way to crush employees into submission, or how data became the only measure of employee performance. I came to despise this approach.
Now, the same criticism has been levelled at Amazon, and the fallout is still TBD. Jeff Bezos has defended Amazon as a fun place to work. It’s not wrong to expect high performance from employees, and he says the company has zero tolerance for a lack of empathy, according to an internal memo.
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