Stock market shrugs off exposé of Amazon work culture

A press report detailing an allegedly soulless, dystopian workplace at the online retailer generated headlines but has had minimal impact on the bottom line

A dark and lengthy exposi(C) of the work culture of Amazon, the world's most powerful online retailer echoed round the world last week. The article, in the New York Times, made Amazon sound like the Hunger Games crossed with 1984. The sick and the pregnant fell by the wayside, trampled on by colleagues who are encouraged to snitch on co-workers. Only the meanest survived.

A tidal wave of think pieces followed along with calls for a boycott. Dr Evil himself - Amazon founder Jeff Bezos - was forced to speak out and claim such behavior was anathema to himself and the company. But a week on, the reaction from shoppers and - perhaps more importantly - Wall Street and the tech community is a big "meh".