Lauren Lee, left, and Agata Skora with their dogs, Emmy and Manu, head up the elevator for a day of work with their owners at Amazon in Seattle on June 11, 2019. (Karen Ducey/Los Angeles Times/TNS)
SEATTLE: Casually dressed techies, blue badges flapping, dart past construction workers during morning rush hour at the global headquarters of Amazon, the juggernaut accelerating the growth of our on-demand culture.
A company food stand dispenses free bananas to commuters streaming between the sleek Amazon office towers that have invaded a light-industrial district on the shore of Seattle’s Lake Union. Gardeners in a glass and steel sphere step back to admire a rare corpse flower in bloom.
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