A Toxic Workplace
Por: Guillermo T.
04 de Maio de 2016

A Toxic Workplace

Inglês Online

If the veracity of an article can be trusted, pressure, stress, and job insecurity form the foundation on which Amazon is built. In its quest to become the company where people can discover anything they want online, employees are encouraged to work well after midnight; complain at slow responses regardless of the time of day (or night); bicker and argue in meetings to poke holes in any suggestion; and rat one another out. The corporate philosophy permeates every level of the organization, and it ignores all that gets preached and practiced as good management these days.

Over one hundred former employees provided information on the article, providing such personalaccounts of grown men crying as they exited meetings. Each month, employees must justify their performance on a variety of metrics, with the bottom performers culled.

What results is a ruthlessly competitive environment. It has been called "rank and yank," which alludes to ranking the performance of employees and yanking the least productive. And evidence in other organizations demonstrates that such a system sows distrust. After all, if colleagues are likely to stab you in the back, teamwork and knowledge sharing get thrown under the bus.

Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon, quickly responded to the article, explaining that the environment at Amazon is friendly but intense. He explained that he couldn't recognize the toxic workplaceportrayed in the article, and doubted any tech company could survive, let alone thrive, with such practices. He concluded that callous management practices would not be tolerated.

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