Amazon prime subscription as employee benefit

Dec 26, 2020 25 Comments

Wondering why Amazon doesn’t give prime subscription to its employees as benefits. It only costs $119 per subscription yearly.

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  • Google
    abcfhdf

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    abcfhdf
    Because Amazon is such a pathetic and shameful incompetent and cheap company to work for
    Dec 26, 2020 7
  • Amazon
    🌧️🤷‍♂️🌧

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    Prime is never free for anyone and Jeff doesn't want to set a precedent, not even for employees. He wants Prime to have enough value it's worth paying for.

    Agree or disagree, that's the actual reason why employees don't get it for free.

    You'll note the employee discount on .com is worth exactly equal to the cost of prime, so Amazon COULD have given free prime for the same price, but decided to give something else instead.
    Dec 26, 2020 4
  • Google
    freedm

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    freedm
    Same reason why Google / Youtube does not give free YouTube premium to all employees.

    It is a very expensive perk. For google, 140k employees * $12 per month = $20 million per year for free YT premium.

    Amazon has more employees so the cost will be millions more per year. Amazon is also very frugal it is against their philosophy to do it.
    Dec 26, 2020 5
    • New
      pkCL18

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      pkCL18
      Do you realize it would cost Google $2 per employee per month at most for YouTube premium? And that based on the benefit derived by employees it would be 100% worth it to do that?
      Dec 26, 2020
    • Amazon / Eng
      UNiw23

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      UNiw23
      Not all Amazon employees are in the US and prime is cheaper in other countries.
      Plus, this us not an expense because Amazon would not pay the cost but just stop earning it, which does not necessarily mean making less as I’m pretty sure that people who are not subscribed will tend to buy more at Amazon when having free shipping.
      In any case I don’t think cost matters here and it’s probably a different reason
      Dec 26, 2020
  • Tesla
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    Why do you need free prime when you got free 🍌!
    Dec 26, 2020 0
  • Cisco / IT
    ciscorocks

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    ciscorocks
    So that they can show more amazon prime paid subscribers, good for the stock
    Dec 26, 2020 0