He is one of the net giants. With the patterns of Google, Facebook and Apple, He is the fourth GAFA leaderwhose power worries. It is of course, the founding father of Amazon. By making his online bookstore the largest grocery on the Internet, he joined the stable of billionaires of this world. After twenty years of relentlessness, he garnered record profits. In 2016, Amazon’s net profit reached $ 2.4 billion as a reminder. He is today, American president, and likes to appear alongside his His fiancée Lauren Sanchez. If he fascinates at this point, many of them have tried to dissect this complex, native of January 12 – of the sign of Capricorn – and now 61 years old. This is the case of Brad Stone who devoted the work to him Jeff Bezos: The crazy ascent of the founder of the Amazon Empire (ed. Talent).
We thus learn that in the 1990s, in the beginnings of Amazon, Jeff Bezos was not very flexible regarding the advantages offered to its employees. “”Bezos refused to give employees bus cards in the city becauseHe did not want to give them a reason to rush outside the office to catch the last bus of the day“, reports the journalist. While many companies do not hesitate to offer considerable advantages to their employees, it was obviously not in Amazon DNA. Indeed, the American has long thought”that a workforce too sure of herself or excessively rich could also harm Amazon“. To be sure that employees are always passionate about their work, rather than present only for rewards while waiting for retirement, he thus”Abstained to use financial programs – such as the allocation of a greater number of actions – which could make employees want to stay in the company, even if they were no longer passionate about their work“.
Parenting at the heart of Amazon changes: costs of costs to send refrigerated breast milk
He also considered that nevertheless estimated generous remuneration, unlimited holidays, free meals and massages had much with the passion and the determination that the employees brought with them to work. So much so that one day he said to David Niekerk, the former vice-president of Amazon: “He said to me one day: ‘If we ever appear in the list of ‘100 American companies where it is good to work’, it is that you have nicked this company to me‘“It turns out that the company has finally become one of the pillars of this famous list. It is an article in Times, following the horrible anecdotes transmitted by 250 employees of Amazon, that things have changed. The Company has made several changes to its culture, with, making the implementation of a new performance evaluation system. A single parental leave program that allows employees to divide their leave into several intervals, In a period of twelve months, or to share them with a spouse whose work does not offer such advantages. We also note at this time the implementation of more specific changes, as The possibility for new mothers to count, as professional expenses, the service offered by Milk Stork – a company that allows them to send breast milk refrigerated At home when they are on a business trip.
