Why you should be skeptical of Jeff Bezos’s worker satisfaction stat

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🗓️ 30 April 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Earlier this month, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos released his last annual letter to shareholders, it's his final farewell. Bezos mentioned a stat that said 94% of warehouse employees like working for Amazon so much that they'd recommend it to a friend as a place to work. But how did Amazon get to that number? Recode's Jason Del Rey did some digging. References: Jason’s full story here. Find more of Jason’s work here Enjoyed this episode? Rate Recode Daily ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ and leave a review on Apple Podcasts. What do you want to learn about on Recode Daily? Send your requests and questions to recodedaily@recode.net. We read every email! Subscribe for free. Be the first to hear the next episode of Recode Daily by subscribing in your favorite podcast app. Support Recode Daily by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts This episode was made by: Host: Teddy Schleifer (@teddyschleifer) Producers: Taylor Maycan, Sofi LaLonde (@sofilalonde), Schuyler Swenson Engineer: Paul Mounsey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	A new energy-efficient boiler from British gas can save you up to 22% on gas bills.
0:04.9	That's a 22% saving on warm nights in.
0:08.7	Cozy cats.
0:13.1	And shower discos.
0:16.3	Save money with a new energy-efficient boiler from British gas.
0:19.4	And you can even spread the cost with up to 4 years interest-free credit.
0:23.0	Such British gas, new boiler.
0:25.1	Credit subject to status.
0:26.4	Credit broken utter lender using panel of lenders for saving sea website.
0:30.0	What's up?
0:34.4	Earlier this month, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos released his last annual letter to shareholders.
0:40.9	It's his final farewell.
0:42.8	And in it, Bezos mentioned a stat that caught our eyes.
0:46.9	Here's what he said.
0:48.4	He says that 94% of warehouse employees like working for Amazon
0:54.6	so much that they'd recommend it to a friend as a place to work.
0:58.3	Okay, sounds good.
0:59.8	But we wanted to know how Amazon got to that number.
1:03.7	That 94% in the first place.
1:06.7	And as is often true, there's more to the story.
1:09.8	Recoz Jason Delray did some digging and is here to explain.
1:12.3	Hey Jason.
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