Daily Briefing, Aug. 18
More broadly, I don’t think any company adopting the approach portrayed could survive, much less thrive, in today’s highly competitive tech hiring market.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, in a memo to his staff, responding to a lengthy New York Times story, Inside Amazon:
Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace, that described heavy workplace pressure — and a large amount of callousness — that have been side effects as part of Amazon’s efforts to make its workers more productive.
QVC will better be able to reach younger shoppers while Zulily hopes to pump up sales growth.
Zulily’s sales topped $1 billion last year, but its shares have been in decline since February 2014.
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