Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon is a multinational technology company focusing in e-commerce, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence in Seattle, Washington. It is one of the Big Four or "Four Horsemen" (and can you identify the horseman below ?) of technology along with Google, Apple and Facebook due to its market capitalization, disruptive innovation, brand equity and hyper-competitive application process.Amazon was ranked as the world's most desired employer in 2018 LinkedIn Top Companies ahead of Google, Facebook and Goldman Sachs.
It is the largest
e-commerce marketplace and cloud computing platform in the world as measured by
revenue and market capitalization. Amazon has separate retail websites for the
United States, the United Kingdom and Ireland, France, Canada, Germany, Italy,
Spain, Netherlands, Australia, Brazil, Japan, China, India, Mexico, Singapore,
and Turkey.Amazon also offers international shipping of
some of its products to certain other countries. In 2015, Amazon surpassed Walmart as the
most valuable retailer in the United States by market capitalization.
The
Amazon logo is an extremely simple logo and while the arrow may just look like
a smile it actually points from a to z. This represents that Amazon sell
everything from a to z and the smile on the customers face when they bought a
product. As Amazon’s workforce has more than doubled over
the past three years, workers at Amazon fulfillment center warehouses in the
United States have started organizing and pushing toward forming a union to
fight back against the company’s treatment of its workers. Amazon’s global workforce
reached more than 613,000 employees worldwide according to its latest quarterly
earnings report, not including the 100,000 temporary employees the company
hired for the holiday season.
Just a few months
after Amazon opened its first New York-based fulfillment center in Staten
Island, workers announced on 12 December the launch of a union push with help
from the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union. “Amazon is a very big
company. They need to have a union put in place,” said an Amazon worker who
requested to remain anonymous. The worker has been with the company for two
years and was transferred to Staten Island when it opened in October 2018. Other
employees cited working conditions as one of the prevailing factors for wanting
to form a union. They noted that to keep up with that hourly rate, workers
cannot take bathroom breaks or they risk Tot (time off task points) that could
be used to justify job termination.
In a
statement during the announcement of the union push, it was claimed workers are overworked, pressured with
frivolous disciplinary actions and security lines at the exit cut into breaks
and extended work shifts, unpaid.“We
are not robots. We are human beings. We cannot come into work after only four
hours of sleep and be expected to be fully energized and ready to work. That’s
impossible,” reported a spokesperson .. andAmazon responded with a statement: “To claim Staten Island workers want
a union is not a fair representation of the vast majority of the employees at
this site.”
Away at a Western
store in Aspen, Colarado,Amazon CEO
Jeff Bezos turned heads when he hopped on a horse and rode it.Photos and videos of Bezos' jaunt through
Kemo Sabe quickly circulated on social media as users were stunned to see how
comfortable the tech magnate appeared in such rustic circumstances. Bezos, who saw his net worth increase by more
than other billionaire peers in 2018, flashed a big smile as he entered the
store wearing a large cowboy hat in a clip shared by the store.The
Amazon CEO increased his wealth by $24billion in 2018. He ended the year with a
net worth of $123billion, according to Business Insider.The Texas quarter horse he was riding, named
Bean, is said to belong to shop owner and Bezos pal Tom Yoder. (photo at the
start)
Jeff Bezos is best
known as the founder and CEO of online giant Amazon. Born in New Mexico and raised in Houston,
Texas, he went on to attend the prestigious Princeton University and graduated
in 1986. After a decade or so of work
on Wall Street, Mr Bezos founded his own company in 1994. He initially called
his company Cadabra, and then reportedly changed the name to Amazon when a
colleague misheard it as 'cadaver'. Initially, it was launched as an online
book store working out of Bezo's garage in Seattle but rapidly grew to include
a variety of goods and services. Now,
Amazon is one of the biggest companies in the world and the most successful
website in the world.
Jeff Bezos married
since 1944 has four children and controls share of 17 per cent in his first
company, Amazon. In 2017, Jeff Bezos
surpassed Bill Gates to become the richest person in the world, and the richest
person of the modern world.
With regards – S.
Sampathkumar
1st Jan
2019.
