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Amazon tells all 798,000 employees to halt travel, in US and internationally, over coronavirus fears
Business Insider ^

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: coronavirus; covid19; sarscov2
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To: TigerClaws

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.


21 posted on 02/28/2020 2:40:04 PM PST by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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To: TigerClaws

No deliveries, packages filling up warehouses!
If they deliver packages then they will be spreading the coronavirus!!


22 posted on 02/28/2020 3:03:43 PM PST by minnesota_bound (homeless guy. He just has more money....He the master will plant more cotton for the democrat party)
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To: minnesota_bound

Just ordered all the goodies I’ve been meaning to order from Amazon over the last two weeks. Thanks drivers...good job.


23 posted on 02/28/2020 3:10:06 PM PST by jetson
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To: TigerClaws
Just a cute way of maximizing profits. Travel costs are always far in excess of the value to the company.
24 posted on 02/28/2020 3:25:22 PM PST by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways to Sunday)
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To: TigerClaws

I want my Planter’s Peanuts!

You better deliver them!!!


25 posted on 02/28/2020 3:33:55 PM PST by Fury
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To: null and void

One flu over the cuckoo’s nest.


26 posted on 02/28/2020 4:10:04 PM PST by Redcitizen (Nobody needs a 10 round magazine. You need a 30 round magazine.)
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To: thefactor

what about domestic travel?


27 posted on 02/28/2020 4:12:46 PM PST by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: Redcitizen

Oy’m stealing that Oy am!


28 posted on 02/28/2020 4:28:17 PM PST by null and void (By the pricking of my lungs, Something wicked this way comes ...)
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To: Chickensoup

The domestics are allowed to go back to their home country, but not to return here?


29 posted on 02/28/2020 4:30:08 PM PST by null and void (By the pricking of my lungs, Something wicked this way comes ...)
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To: cyclotic; All

Tele-commute.


30 posted on 02/28/2020 4:52:18 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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To: rxsid

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2020/02/private-jet-owned-by-world-s-richest-man-jeff-bezos-lands-in-wellington-spurring-rumours-the-amazon-ceo-is-in-new-zealand.html

Bezos is in his NZ bunker.


31 posted on 02/28/2020 4:55:02 PM PST by Black Agnes
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To: Redcitizen

Yup, that about sums up the panic melodrama.


32 posted on 02/28/2020 4:55:02 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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To: Black Agnes

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.


33 posted on 02/28/2020 4:57:49 PM PST by nascarnation
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To: nascarnation

He probably threw out everybody but alexa and the hoe.


34 posted on 02/28/2020 4:59:28 PM PST by Black Agnes
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To: Black Agnes

Can a person like that even begin to function without cooks, butlers, landscapers, laundry, chauffeurs, etc?


35 posted on 02/28/2020 5:02:16 PM PST by nascarnation
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To: nascarnation

You’ve got to wonder just how automated a house of his might be.


36 posted on 02/28/2020 5:03:06 PM PST by Black Agnes
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To: Black Agnes

Then he’ll need a crew of Indians to maintain the software and Filipinos to maintain the robots, LOL.


37 posted on 02/28/2020 5:04:49 PM PST by nascarnation
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To: nascarnation

LOL.

I’m sure he’s got working coronavirus tests and has already screened them then!


38 posted on 02/28/2020 5:05:28 PM PST by Black Agnes
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To: TigerClaws

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39 posted on 02/28/2020 5:49:56 PM PST by sauropod (David Horowitz: “Inside every progressive is a totalitarian screaming to get out.”)
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To: DouglasKC
👍🏼
40 posted on 02/28/2020 5:51:58 PM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.cuase)
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