Amazon sets out its ‘positions’ on a range of social and societal topics

Faced with ever more questions about its practices, especially from its own employees, as the Amazon Employees for Climate Justice group demonstrated, the tech giant decided on 10 October to publish a statement “to provide customers, investors, policymakers, employees, and others our views on certain issues”, underlining in the introduction that “there is much room for healthy debate and differing opinions”. Amazon, which employs 630,000 people across the globe, has taken a stance on various issues – such as on the minimum wage, climate change, the importance of inclusion and diversity, and the tax regime – and encourages public and private actors to follow suit.