Amazon has never claimed a greater purpose than selling its shoppers what they want. But thanks to a growing number of its own employees, this could change.
of the Los Angeles headquarters of Riot Games Inc., maker of the “League of Legends” video game, over its handling of sexual discrimination lawsuits.
“It puts a lot of pressure on him to respond to this in a thoughtful way,” said Nell Minow, vice chairwoman of ValueEdge Advisors, which promotes strong corporate governance.by the Business Roundtable last month in which nearly 200 major companies pledged to consider the interests of their workers, customers, suppliers and communities — including environmental protections — along with those of their shareholders, Minow said.
“There’s a feeling of cognitive dissonance when ordering from Amazon,” she said. “It’s fast and easy, it saves time and money and makes my life easier. At the same time, I have this nagging feeling that it’s wasting so much packaging.” Amazon has built solar plants and wind farms to shift many of its facilities to non-fossil-fuel energy, and has said it “has a long-term goal to power our global infrastructure using 100% renewable energy.” Amazon’sBut in February,that AWS’ operations in Virginia were breaking Amazon’s commitment to power the service with 100% renewable energy and that only 12% of its data centers’ power in the state came from renewable energy.
The employees’ group wants to end “all custom solutions specifically designed for oil and gas extraction and exploration” by AWS. And it wants Amazon to no longer support politicians “who delay action on climate change.”
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