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Hundreds of Amazon employees walked out of the office in Seattle this week, gathering in between the company's headquarters towers while holding signs, participating in chance, and listening to speakers urge the tech giant to do better.

Let's make our voices heard by Andy Jassy and the S team.

This is our world.

This is our world.

This is our company.

This is our company.

I'm so proud of all of us.

Yes.

It was part of a global walkout that organizers said drew participation from more than 2,000 Amazon employees worldwide.

So why did they walk out?

And what do they hope to accomplish?

On this episode of the Geekwire podcast, we hear from Amazon employees in the crowd and speakers at the podium.

We explain the company's perspective, and we put the walkout in the larger context of tectonic shifts taking place in the tech industry.

Welcome to Geekwire. I'm Geekwire co-founder Todd Bishop, and I'm here with Kurt Schloser, Geekwire Reporter. It's great to see you, Kurt.

Hi, Todd. Good to be back.

So you had some adventures this week. You went down to the Amazon campus. And when you've been in the past to try and find Amazon employees to talk with, just randomly approaching people on the street, it's often difficult to get Amazon employees to talk.

This time was very different.

In some ways, at least, certain Amazon employees had a lot to say this was the walkout that had been planned, a demonstration urging the company to take

bolder action on the climate and also to reconsider its return to office policies. Give us a

sense for what you saw and heard down at Amazon HQ outside the spheres this week. Yeah, Todd,

there was quite a bit of talking. There was chanting. There was some clapping,

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