Amazon all have a canteen chopsticks
2016-08-02
Amazon Unlike most technology companies are not different from that provided free lunch. Employees must pay for meals in the cafeteria.
However, a change in the Amazon canteen recent show, Amazon began more attention to the food culture. This change is, Amazon finally has all the canteen chopsticks.
Several employees told us that Amazon, the Amazon in the cafeteria and kitchen layout chopsticks all initiatives are an anonymous employee staff meeting in March of this year the company raised.
Amazon held twice a year, staff meeting in downtown Seattle Key Arena (Key Arena, Seattle was once home).
Bezos and its executive team will usually announce a major performance of the company in general meeting, and awarded to reward good employees.
They are also at the meeting to answer questions raised by employees. Employees through a microphone questions directly, you can also submit questions anonymously. These diverse problems, such as the company's plans asked Bezos why dogs employees can work, but not with cats.
Bezos knew he could not spot the problem all the questions. In order to avoid the thorny issue of Q & A, he often declared in advance Q & A session: "I'll leave it suffering assistant to answer."
Some staff meeting in March of this year put forward such a thorny question:
"Our canteen only Western-style tableware, the company intends to provide chopsticks? Many companies the number of minority employees, I think they prefer to use chopsticks."
Bezos seems to be very interested in this issue, and very seriously. Although he was unable to answer this question, but the questions to an executive of the stage, but within one week, Amazon canteens and kitchens are all put on chopsticks (chopsticks cafeteria had been Amazon , but not all have a canteen chopsticks).
An Amazon employee told us: "the management team suddenly aware of the problem, they responded so quickly, give us a great feeling."
According to Amazon's latest report on the diversity of Asian workers accounted for about 20% of the management staff of the United States, accounting for 10% of all US employees.
Like Yahoo, Amazon and Dropbox analogy of smaller companies already offer chopsticks, Amazon's move long overdue. Amazon frugal culture is well known, this could mark the Amazon have more initiatives. Amazon's stock price and earnings climbing, the management team is likely to improve employee welfare, catch up with other technology companies in Silicon Valley.
In addition to increasing chopsticks, Amazon acquired a cafeteria ice machine. This is another anonymous employee in March staff meeting on the company's proposal
