Seattle (US), Aug 5 (AP) Amazon has extended its return date for technical and corporate employees to January 2022 as COVID-19 cases rise nationally due to the Delta version. The Seattle Times, which detailed the tech giant’s delay in returning to offices from internal messages, reports that unlike its Seattle-area rival Microsoft, Amazon will not mandate employees to receive a COVID-19 vaccine before returning to the office. .
As we continue to look closely at conditions related to COVID-19, we are adjusting our guidance for corporate employees in the US and other countries where we previously estimated that our employees would be working regularly in the week of September 7. forms will begin to arrive, Amazon human resources chief Beth Galetti wrote in an email to employees. Now we are extending this date till January 3, 2022. Microsoft announced earlier this week that it was pushing to reopen its office in October and require employees to be fully vaccinated against the coronavirus to enter the company’s US offices and other workplaces. Will be
Spokesman Jose Negrete said Amazon continues to encourage employees to get the vaccine, but it will not be required. The delay affects nearly 60,000 people working at Amazon’s offices in Seattle and Bellevue, Washington, as well as thousands more corporate Amazon employees around the world. Amazon is Washington state’s largest private employer, and a delay in returning to office work will be a blow to many downtown Seattle businesses that rely on business for tech workers.
The vast majority of Amazon’s 1.2 million-person global workforce is still expected to show up on site at Amazon’s warehouses to pack boxes, sort goods, and load and unload trucks. (AP).
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