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Amazon is recommending all employees globally to work from home, but a lot of them can't actually do so

Amazon is telling all of its employees worldwide to work from home if their jobs can be done remotely, as coronavirus continues to spread.

But that likely excludes the vast majority of warehouse workers who pack and ship all the packages Amazon handles every day, as most of their work can't be done off-site.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more storiesAll Amazon employees around the world who are able to do their jobs remotely are asked to work from home, as coronavirus continues to spread.

The work from home mandate only applies to employees who can do their jobs remotely. That means most of the office workers are now working from home. But the vast majority of warehouse workers who pack and ship Amazon's packages every day are likely excluded from this accommodation. Amazon currently employs almost 800,000 globally.

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He Want To kick Them ! As Reason by CoronaVirus ?

Still producing the vast majority of products in the most infected areas. Putting everyone at risk.

Jeff Bezos can, and that's what is important.

Launch the drones

Sounds good though. Kind of like my mortgage company reminding me that I can still pay online without risking getting sick

wfh delivery may be hard

Fuck you Bezos

That's nice 🙌🏿

Yet people still telling that robots and AI are not necessary and they will steal jobs .

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