Amazon to hold off warehouse phone ban ‘until further notice’

Amazon is holding off a ban of phones in its warehouses, as employees demand to have access to real-time information in emergencies following disasters like a tornadoes that killed six in an Amazon warehouse. — Bloomberg

Amazon.com Inc. is backing off plans to ban cell phones in warehouses, allowing employees to keep their devices with them at work.

The reversal follows the emergence of a more contagious strain of Covid-19 and after six workers died at a facility struck by a tornado last week, which reinforced a desire among warehouse employees to have access to real-time information in emergencies.