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Amazon has pushed backmost its return-to-office day for tech and firm workers until January 2022 arsenic COVID-19 cases surge nationally owed to the delta variant.
The Seattle Times, which elaborate the tech giant's hold successful returning to offices from interior messages, reports that dissimilar its Seattle-area rival Microsoft, Amazon volition not mandate employees person the COVID-19 vaccine earlier they instrumentality to the office.
"As we proceed to intimately ticker conditions related to COVID-19, we are adjusting our guidance for firm employees successful the U.S. and different countries wherever we had antecedently anticipated our employees would statesman coming successful regularly the week of Sept. 7," Amazon quality resources main Beth Galetti wrote successful an email to employees. "We are present extending this day to Jan. 3, 2022."
Microsoft announced earlier this week it was pushing backmost its bureau reopening to October and volition necessitate employees to beryllium afloat vaccinated against the coronavirus to participate the company's U.S. offices and different worksites.
Amazon continues to promote employees to person the vaccine, but volition not necessitate it, said spokesperson Jose Negrete.
The hold affects the astir 60,000 radical moving successful Amazon's offices successful Seattle and Bellevue, Washington, arsenic good arsenic tens of thousands much firm Amazon employees worldwide. Amazon is Washington state's largest backstage employer, and the hold successful the instrumentality to bureau enactment volition beryllium a stroke to the galore downtown Seattle businesses that trust connected the commercialized of tech workers.
The immense bulk of Amazon's 1.2 million-person planetary workforce is inactive expected to amusement up on-site to battalion boxes, benignant merchandise and load and unload trucks astatine Amazon warehouses.
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