Amazon exposé: "Nearly every person I worked with I saw cry"

Amazon has come under fire recently for its treatment of employees, after a report published in The New York Times detailed horrific working conditions.

One former Amazon employee who had given birth to a still born child explained how she “just experienced the most devastating event in my life” and was then told by her manager that she would be put on a “performance improvement plan”. This scheme, she told The New York Times, was “to make sure my focus stayed on my job”.

The HR executive who was required to explain the situation to the distressed worker claimed that she too questioned what she was doing, asking her superiors: “What kind of company do we want to be?”

The report went on to claim that staff in the Pennsylvania warehouse had to endure temperatures in the high 30s (Celcius) with bosses keeping ambulances outside in case a worker should faint.