In a leaked document, Amazon employees shared stories of racism and gender discrimination while calling for a new leadership principle on 'inclusion'
Join BI PrimeAmazon employees have been sharing a document titled "The case for a 15th leadership principle on inclusion" over the past couple weeks.
The stories include incidents of racial and gender discrimination, as well as the general lack of women across the company. The 12-page document, written on June 3, explains the rationale behind the movement and includes employee-submitted stories of workplace discriminiation. In just a week since the document's publication, almost 500 employees have expressed their support for the initiative, according to an internal survey from last week.
Amazon's leadership principles are the company's foundational values deeply ingrained in its culture and decision-making process. The list includes CEO Jeff Bezos's favorite business maxims, such as "customer obsession," and is used regularly as guidance from the individual level up to the most senior executives at Amazon.
In an email statement to Business Insider, Amazon's spokesperson confirmed the existence of the document and said the company has a zero tolerance policy for workplace injustice.
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