Jeff Bezos leaves the Amazon direction: How it started and why you're leaving the sales giant online

The 57-year-old announced in February that he would leave as Amazon CEO in the third quarter of this year.

Foreign agencies reported that the owner and founder of the company would leave the war with disgruntled workers, Andy Jassy, to have more time for philanthropy, newspaper editing and spatial duels with Elon Musk, the man who expelled him from the world's richest man position earlier this year.

He, however, will hold one of the main roles in the departments of technology and electronic sales in that giant business, which he launched 27 years ago.

On July 20th, Bezos also announced a space trip.

Critical Work Conditions and the Destruction of Competition

His accomplices celebrate it as a great innovation in book sales, internet retail, cloud reckoning and home distribution, but on the other hand it is satanic because of the attitude and treatment of workers, up to a million of them, and certain business practices that destroyed competition.

The world's internet retail giant in pandemic time registered increased profits but also criticism of the effectiveness of security measures used to protect the health of employees, some of whom were laid off after criticism of Bezo.

Therefore, a court in Nanterre, France, in April 2020 ordered the provisional closure of six Amazon warehouses in France and banned all shipments except the necessary ones.

The company has been under fire all over the world for failing to protect workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, and British Guardian has written about the Amazon's “dules of storage that have become an infection group”, including in Staten Island in New York City.

In the United States, Amazon employs more than 800,000 people.

For criticism of working conditions, Bezos answers that they were paid a minimum of $15 an hour, but they object to its efficiency and accuse him of treating workers as machines.

It also does not allow union formation, but after severe criticism, he promised that the Amazon would become the world's top <x0).

The Amazon market value today is more than $1.7 trillion.

In 2020 the company registered annual revenues of $3386 billion from electronic sales, cloud calculations, artificial intelligence, and film production.

Amazon growth has made Bezo one of the richest people in the world and is currently “worth $11 billion, even after 2019 divorce with his wife, MacKenzie Scott, who owned 25 percent of Amazon shares, then worth $38 billion.

After leaving duty as the Amazon's daily CEO and management, Bezos will focus more on his space exploration company Blue Origin.

On July 20th, with a rocket and a capsule “The New Shepherd”, created for six passengers, it must be lifted to a height of more than 60 miles [100 km] above the surface of the Earth.

In 2013, he bought The Washington Post daily.

He claims he wants to cost more and more the fight against climate change, but currently, after media reports, he is facing criticism that he has not paid income tax for several years.