Amazon's existential problem

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English - June 17, 2021 12:00 - 12 minutes - 13 MB - ★★★★★ - 584 ratings
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Amazon's success has come from its obsessive focus on customers. But that focus is causing an existential problem for the company - and its huge force of hourly workers.

Guest: Karen Weise, Seattle-based New York Times tech reporter

Read the Times' full investigation into Amazon's workplace practices: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/06/15/us/amazon-workers.html