LEIPZIG, Germany — A week before Christmas, Amazon’s logistics center in Leipzig is bustling. Trucks trace a line to and from the loading docks at the American online retailing giant’s vast complex, which helps supply Germany and beyond. Inside, workers stack and ready holiday packages for shipment. It’s the busiest time of year for the world’s second biggest e-commerce company.
But outside the logistics center’s steel mesh gates, the scene is less festive. Around 500 Amazon employees are packed in a heated tent, sitting on beer benches and passing around home-baked cookies while Europop plays from a stereo mounted on a …read more
Source: Foreign Policy
