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Amazon Postpones Return To Office Until January 2022; Won't Implement Vaccine Mandate (geekwire.com) 36

Amazon told employees Thursday that it will delay its timeline for returning to regular work in the office until early next year. GeekWire reports: The new date: Jan. 3, 2022. Previously, Amazon had expected employees to start working in the office regularly the week of Sept. 7. However, Amazon stopped short of implementing a vaccine mandate for those who do work in the office, as companies including Microsoft, Google, and Facebook have done. Amazon said it requires employees to wear masks in the office, except for those who can verify they've been fully vaccinated. Earlier this week, Google told staff that it's approved 85% of employee requests to work remotely or relocate once its offices fully re-open. "Google is one the largest companies trying a hybrid approach to returning from the pandemic," reports Bloomberg. "It will ask most of its staff to go back to work in their previous offices, but let others do their jobs elsewhere."

Shockingly, only 10,000 of Google's 145,000+ employees asked to work from home.
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Amazon Postpones Return To Office Until January 2022; Won't Implement Vaccine Mandate

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  • According to the CDC you need to wear a mask indoors even if you are vaccinated. Why isn't Amazon following the science?
    • by Patent Lover ( 779809 ) on Thursday August 05, 2021 @08:04PM (#61661831)
      Same reason they have people peeing in bottles and don't want a union. They don't care.
    • by Known Nutter ( 988758 ) on Thursday August 05, 2021 @09:37PM (#61662115)

      According to the CDC you need to wear a mask indoors even if you are vaccinated. Why isn't Amazon following the science?

      Because the CDC does not create nor enforce workplace regulations. The CDC issues guidance and recommendations. Federal, state, and local authorities issue health orders and create regulations which must be followed. These orders are based on authority granted by law.

      Amazon DFs, for example, in a county with a mask mandate health order in place, must comply, and workers there must mask up. King County (Seattle) where Amazon HQ is has no such mandate at this time (after a quick search).

      Furthermore, the CDC science recommends masking in areas of high transmission (Florida 16k new cases yesterday) and not necessarily areas of lower transmission (2k new cases yesterday). So, they are indeed "following the science", as you say.

      • ** (2k new cases in Washington yesterday).
      • the CDC science recommends masking in areas of high transmission

        The CDC's county by county map [cdc.gov] has 67.11% of the US shown as "high transmision". Apart from the NE corner of the US, the majority of counties not listed as high transmission are sparsely populated and not likely to have large employers like Amazon.

        While the CDC does not set workplace regulations, the whole way through this thing the safe move has been to follow their guidelines in order to meet OSHA's General Duty clause. It is certainly a risk to the business to do otherwise, since if an outbreak occurr

        • I'm loving the NE (particularly New York) acting like this is because they "followed the science" instead of just owning it's due in large part to the fact that they had some of the highest infection rates the first time around.

    • Because Amazon has billions of dollars of "fuck you" money.
  • by Joviex ( 976416 ) on Thursday August 05, 2021 @08:01PM (#61661821)
    Not having to return to the warehouse to ship all tha.... wait..
    • by iamacat ( 583406 )

      Imagine having to get a college degree for warehouse work. Constant presence at desk for programming jobs is kind of like that.

  • Funny how fast we went from 2 weeks to smooth the curve to shop me the papers. The difference between a conspiracy theory and facts seem to be around 6 months

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