Why We're So Obsessed With Amazon's Work Culture

Behind all the hubbub is the (pernicious, groundless) worry that we should all be working like Amazonians.

The recent New York Times exposé of Amazon's white-collar Hunger Games-esque work culture struck a particular nerve with my group of tech friends in a way that, say, the terrible working conditions at McDonald's—or even at an Amazon warehouse—could not. We talked about it on the beach on Sunday and on Slack on Monday. A friend and I wondered out loud whether working at Amazon was like being stuck in a shitty relationship. And the firestorm of hot takes that flooded my Twitter feed hinted that basically everyone else who works in media and tech was doing much the same thing.

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