Virtual yoga to empathy: Amazon scales up remote work culture innovations

The pandemic has prompted the e-commerce giant to double down on building innovations focused on improving remote work culture especially employee wellbeing, both mental and physical

Swati Rustagi, director of human resources at Amazon India has been able to spend more time reading stories to her kids after the coronavirus triggered ‘work from home’ for thousands of employees at the e-commerce giant last year. Rustagi has now taken this activity to another level where she reads stories to the underprivileged children and shares the recordings with them with the help of her team. Similarly, the coronavirus pandemic has driven Rustagi and her team to scale up innovations at Amazon revolved around improving work culture for employees working from home or remotely. These are mainly focused on