Amazon’s real innovation isn’t a cloud service company or a logistics business. The innovation is on how to squeeze every once of labor and value out of a human being, and how to do this legally, without damaging customers’ or public opinion of the company, at massive scale.
As a leader, I was coached on how to motivate my employees by selling promotions as a carrot, even though my leadership had no interest in seeing through that person gets promoted. It was lies and gaslighting.
I was coached on detaching myself from employees and their well being, so it would make it easier to do the right thing for the company.
I was pressured to get onto specific managers who weren’t meeting their attrition targets.
The idea that amazon would walk back compensation targets is no surprise to me.