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Zappos has always been an a company looking for an edge in many areas, not the least of which is social media. They currently have 440 employees (know as Zapponians) ...
Zappos.com Inc. has long offered pay to new hires who wanted to quit. The company’s leader, Tony Hsieh, said he wants employees who are truly excited about working for the Las Vegas-based online ...
Zappos Chief Executive Officer Tony Hsieh, one of the few workers to have a title, is confident the company has the right kind of culture to be around in the marketplace -- and on the list -- for ...
Make company culture a first priority and the rest — including marketing and customer service — will fall into place. That was the message Zappos Chief Executive Officer Tony Hsieh hoped to ...
Amazon, Zappos’ parent company, has a 15-year lease. O’Mara said the overlapping of Hsieh’s corporate responsibility and personal investment is another unique aspect of the move downtown.
It's called Zappos. A couple of months later, the uber smart 27-year old Hsieh joined the company as its CEO and, well, the rest is history. Today, Zappos is a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon ...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Our top priority is not customer service but rather company culture, said Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh during the afternoon keynote at BoxWorks 2011 on Wednesday afternoon.
What’s notable about Ask Zappos, however, aside from it being a useful service, is that the entire project was created start to finish in 12 weeks, using a process of “one-week sprints.” ...
Zappos.com tour guide Erika Newman (right) shows off the ball pit in the human resources department of the company's Las Vegas headquarters. Zappos eliminated managers and embraced a system of ...
Zappos.com gained prominence on the social media radar earlier this year when Hsieh, his executive team and hundreds of the company's employees created a one-brand army on Twitter.
At Zappos, an engaging work culture comes first; the company lavishly invests in morale. But what's the business rationale for spending generously to make employees happy? Economics correspondent ...