Public Letter to Jeff Bezos and the Amazon Board of Directors
I hope Amazon&#x27;s leaders show more backbone than Google&#x27;s leaders, and do not cave to demands from a small, vocal minority of activists. This is only 3000 of over 600,000 employees - less than 0.5% of the company.<p>Employee activism is absurd and entitled. How can rank-and-file employees have the visibility, knowledge, or experience to make highly-complex business decisions that leadership has to deal with? They can&#x27;t. And they don&#x27;t get to demand either visibility or involvement in all those discussions&#x2F;decisions, just like a random employee doesn&#x27;t get to get involved in some other random employee&#x27;s day-to-day work.<p>Amazon needs to avoid the fate Google has suffered, of becoming a hostile workplace where voices are dominated by one cohort with certain political leanings. This is especially crucial because most dissenting or indifferent voices are not in a position to speak freely, and face a severe lack of psychological safety at the workplace when they go against the grain in cities like Seattle or San Francisco.