Posted on 02/28/2020 12:55:52 PM PST by TigerClaws
Amazon told all 798,000 of its employees on Friday to avoid "non-essential travel" domestically and internationally because of concerns about COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, a spokesperson for the company confirmed to Business Insider.
Earlier on Friday, The New York Times reported that employees on Amazon's worldwide operations team, which oversees much of the company's technology and logistics globally, received a separate email from the senior vice president in charge of the team, Dave Clark, telling them not to plan any meetings requiring travel until at least April, when the company hoped to have a better sense of the outbreak's impact.
The spokesperson confirmed that the guidance on avoiding nonessential travel was sent to all employees, including those on the worldwide operations team.
Amazon had already announced restrictions on travel to and from China in January, telling workers who had been to the region to work from home for two weeks upon returning and seek medical attention if they showed symptoms, in-line with guidance from companies like Apple, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft.
However, as the outbreak has worsened killing nearly 2,900 people and infecting at least 83,000, with most cases and deaths in China companies have been forced to take additional measures to protect workers. Facebook's annual developer conference and the largest smartphone conference were both recently canceled because of the coronavirus. On Friday, a Google employee in the company's Zurich office tested positive for the coronavirus.
Companies' operations are also beginning to feel the impact. Amazon has been frantically stockpiling products made in China as concerns grow about how its supply chain could be affected and trying to prevent sellers from jacking up prices for highly sought-after supplies like face masks.
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The economic cost of each action will add up. No one has considered the tipping point. Because of that, people had better work on alternatives to stopping travel or the export of materials. Ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI) would be a technology worth exploring. Such technology is already being used in Tuberculosis containment areas for the treatment of air ventilation systems.
No deliveries, packages filling up warehouses!
If they deliver packages then they will be spreading the coronavirus!!
Just ordered all the goodies I’ve been meaning to order from Amazon over the last two weeks. Thanks drivers...good job.
I want my Planter’s Peanuts!
You better deliver them!!!
One flu over the cuckoos nest.
what about domestic travel?
Oy’m stealing that Oy am!
The domestics are allowed to go back to their home country, but not to return here?
Tele-commute.
Bezos is in his NZ bunker.
Yup, that about sums up the panic melodrama.
Interesting. It is a pretty remote location. But these days there is travel and commerce everywhere. I’d think his biggest risk is that a number of his house servants are Asians of some sort and potentially at risk unless he can lock down their travel.
He probably threw out everybody but alexa and the hoe.
Can a person like that even begin to function without cooks, butlers, landscapers, laundry, chauffeurs, etc?
You’ve got to wonder just how automated a house of his might be.
Then he’ll need a crew of Indians to maintain the software and Filipinos to maintain the robots, LOL.
LOL.
I’m sure he’s got working coronavirus tests and has already screened them then!
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