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Why Amazon employees once worked at door desks

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Because why pay for actual ergonomic furniture when you can foster a toxic culture of extreme corporate frugality early on? In the 1990s, Bezos famously bought cheap wooden doors from Home Depot and attached legs to them for his employees to work on. The company still gives out a 'Door Desk Award' for cost-saving ideas, masking billionaire stinginess as a quirky corporate virtue.

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