Amazon founder Jeff Bezos on Thursday told investors the e-commerce giant needs a better “vision” for its workers, just days after an effort to create the company’s first labor union was defeated.
Defending Amazon’s treatment of employees, Bezos laid out a new goal for the company to be “Earth’s best employer and Earth’s safest place to work,” in his final letter as chief executive.
“Despite what we’ve accomplished, it’s clear to me that we need a better vision for our employees’ success,” Bezos said in the letter.
Bezos will remain chairman of the board after he resigns as chief executive later this year, handing control of Amazon to Andy Jassy of the company’s cloud services unit.
A contentious unionization drive at an Amazon warehouse in the southern US state of Alabama failed last week as a vote count showed a wide majority of workers rejecting the move.
“Bezos’s admission today demonstrates that what we have been saying about workplace conditions is…
