Title: Amazon Corporate Social Responsibility: An Overview - Management Weekly
Headings: Amazon Corporate Social Responsibility: An Overview
Amazon Corporate Social Responsibility: An Overview
Contents
Amazon – the largest online marketplace
The CSR agenda for Amazon
Top sustainability commitments made by Amazon Inc
100% renewable energy
Reduction in water consumption
Net carbon zero company
Zero carbon footprint for shipments
Creation of climate related funds
Optimization of delivery
Some unsolved CSR issues of Amazon
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Content: This scale of operations does not come without criticisms. Some of the major criticisms against Amazon stems from the following actions: Environmental degradation due to the massive scale of packaging. Other activities that lead to carbon footprint like logistics, manufacturing. Massive energy consumption at their headquarters offices and cloud servers. Data privacy issues. Promoting hyper consumption and culture of mindless purchases. Toxic work culture
The CSR agenda for Amazon
In fact, some 400 odd employees went on record to state their discomfort over the environmental degradation. Moreover, it comes when Amazon has very strict policies against speaking publicly against the company. From the company’s perspective, it is also very difficult to measure the true impact of its entire operations globally.