Amazon real estate chief: ‘I want to change the way that people work within the four walls’

Amazon doesn’t just innovate on behalf of customers. The tech giant also comes up with new ideas to help its own employees.

That’s playing out with how Amazon is thinking about its physical workspaces, according to comments from Amazon’s global real estate chief John Schoettler at an event in Seattle on Wednesday evening.

A panel discussion at the Museum of History & Industry with top executives focused on innovation happening within South Lake Union, where Amazon has helped completely transform a once sleepy industrial neighborhood into a bustling urban tech hub.