If Amazon.com executives had their way, they would no doubt have trained public attention on some of the upbeat news that has appeared in recent months: headlines such as ‘Amazon Passes Walmart as Biggest Retailer by Market Value’ or ‘Amazon Launches Full Operations in Mexico’.
Instead, the online superstore has been forced to contend with a damning exposé published in the New York Times. The article described the office culture at the company’s Seattle headquarters as an ‘experiment in how far it can push white-collar workers, redrawing the boundaries of what is acceptable’.
