When Andy Jassy became CEO in July 2021, Amazon added EBE to the company's vaunted leadership principles, making it one of the top priorities.The project took a hit this year when Amazon investigated one of the key executives involved in EBE, as Insider previously reported.Here's a look at each of the six topics Amazon identified as key EBE factors in the study: 1) Competitive Compensation and Benefits The report said total compensation had "increasingly become an issue in 2021 with competitors making aggressive offers for Amazonian talent," a trend that Insider previously wrote about.Amazon's frontline employees expressed similar sentiments, choosing "career advancement" as the second biggest challenge they would like Amazon to solve.Frontline workers described Amazon as an unforgiving place, where they could "get fired without warning for rules they do not know exist, and that it's "obsessed with the customer while employees are expendable 'cogs in a wheel.'""