Amazon Tells Employees In New York and New Jersey To Work From Home To Prevent Coronavirus Spread (cnbc.com) 34
Amazon on Monday asked employees at its New York and New Jersey offices to work from home to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. This comes as the company told employees at its offices in the San Francisco Bay Area and the Seattle area to work from home, following reports that an Amazon employee in Seattle tested positive for the virus. CNBC reports: The Amazon-owned audiobook company, Audible, is headquartered in Newark, New Jersey. Amazon also employs thousands of people in New York City, including employees at Amazon Web Services and members of sales and marketing teams, among other units. An Amazon spokesperson told CNBC in statement: "We continue to work closely with public and private medical experts to ensure we are taking the right precautions as the situation continues to evolve. This includes recommending that employees who are able to work from home in Seattle/Bellevue, the Bay Area, New York, New Jersey and the Lombardy region/Asti province of Italy do so through the end of March."
Amazon last month restricted all nonessential travel in the U.S. in response to continued spread of the coronavirus. As of Monday afternoon, there are now more than 113,300 cases of the coronavirus worldwide, and at least 3,892 people have died from the virus. There are at least 600 confirmed cases of the virus in the U.S., and at least 22 deaths.
Amazon last month restricted all nonessential travel in the U.S. in response to continued spread of the coronavirus. As of Monday afternoon, there are now more than 113,300 cases of the coronavirus worldwide, and at least 3,892 people have died from the virus. There are at least 600 confirmed cases of the virus in the U.S., and at least 22 deaths.
Of course (Score:5, Insightful)
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I ordered some spray bottles for the alcohol, but I'm still trying to figure out the exact procedure without wasting too much alcohol.
I hope they quarantine them inside the shipping center, I have more orders that haven't shipped!
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"I ordered some spray bottles for the alcohol, but I'm still trying to figure out the exact procedure without wasting too much alcohol."
Use ethanol, then there will be no waste. If you spray too much, everybody in the room will be disinfected inside (get drunk), that's it.
Whiskey (Score:2)
I'm going to start carrying an opened bottle of Whiskey in the car.
I'll just tell the cops it's disinfectant.
Silver Lining - Telecommuting Goes Mainstream. (Score:2)
Perhaps a Silver Lining to all this is that many companies will realize that telecommuting is actually effective. Instead of it being an exception or perk, it might become a regular and mainstream practice.
Of course with increased telecommuting comes reduced traffic with subsequent reduced pollution, lower office space costs, arguably less time lost to illness since a person isn't sitting in a petri dish office 8 hours a day, increased patronage of local businesses, and perhaps lower stress.
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Most people will remember to get sick on schedule, regardless.
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Re: Of course (Score:4)
Your comment presumes that Amazon has avoided automation because of public outcry against job losses. I doubt that has ever happened at Amazon or ever will. They do what they think will be most profitable, and the public don't have a say in it. The article you linked backs up that view -- they still use humans because they work better than robots for certain jobs. When the robots are good enough, they'll switch.
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More important is the oil war going on right now. Saudi and Russia are not caring about a virus but good old black gold (which is looking a bit more like silver as of today.) Which is due to stupidity (in my opinion) from the Saudi's. Russia needs cash and will not cut production but for them to say (that is the Saudi's) oh ok we will increase our output. That is fueling a bigger problem (think WWIII) what choices doe
Re:Flu deaths (Score:5, Informative)
ever have pneumonia?
I have. out of work for well over 2 months. choking on fluid in my lungs, gasping for air, forcing fist into my gut to TRY to get something out so I could get some air in.
I was in my early 40's at the time.
you don't want anything like this. I could be a hard guy and say 'all trumpers deserve to get this, due to their attitude and everything they've done to put us backwards'. but even I won't wish this on a trumper. or you.
you and other doubters GROW THE FUCK UP. people die from this. you can't breathe, fluid is in your lungs and its the scariest shit in the world.
take this seriously, folks. find someone who had pneumonia and see if they recommend it.
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Even so, still sick of hearing about it. Everyone's going to get it. Most will recover. Most understand the need to quarantine to slow the spread. OK, we get it. Now shut up.
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financial fallout. sigh.
you don't get it. when you can't fucking breathe for 2 solid months - you are going to talk about FINANCE?
I assume you are young and just haven't live thru anything like this.
we are all going to know someone who will get very sick from this. in a year's time, we'll probably know someone who died or was in the hospital for this.
if you have not had this life experience - you will. everyone will. this is a world wide pandemic.
don't talk to me about finance. health! when you can't
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I think he was talking about markets. he was on and on about oil and how that's the priority, not this.
sure sounds like he's a wall st. wannabe or somesuch.
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You don't even need to develop pneumonia. I have a feeling that most people talking about the "flu" have never actually had influenza and confuse the "flu" with the common cold. "Oh, it's just the flu" is the most bullshit comment I hear people make all the time. I had influenza (the "flu") when I was 17 years old and pretty fit (running 5km a day, riding my bicycle everywhere and surfing for as many hours as I could when the waves were good). I was certainly fitter then than I am now. The flu knocked me of
Re: Flu deaths (Score:4, Informative)
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Influenza is a virus. Symptoms range from what you had all the way down to asymptomatic. A cold is a set of symptoms which can be caused by a number of viruses, including the influenza viruses. Whether the sickness knocks you off your feet or barely touches you is not indicative of whether or not you have influenza. Only a test could confirm that
If there is a test involved then symptoms (which are subjective experiences described by the patient) are no longer relevant. If there is a test then that looks for indications, which are objective measurements. As far as I know if a test indicates influenza no competent medical doctor would make a diagnosis of "a cold" because influenza is not an indication of "a cold"; it's a pretty definitive indication of the flu which -- a much more serious disease than "a cold". Perhaps you're mistaking the influenza
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Governments should start educating people when they talk about CORVID-19 or whatever they want to call it this week.
They should start all news about this by explaining that cold and flu are not the same thing, and that CORVID-19 is x times as lethal as the flu usually is, and that we st
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Caronavirus attacks worst those that are immune compromised. You probably had such a bad time because you were such at the time - one category of immune compromised is *athlete*. And what you described was just that - you were doing so much that your body was straining everything just to keep up your energy levels and repair tissue damage. Nothing left over to fight off the flu.
Someone running 10 miles a week, biking occasionally, weight lifting without being a "weight lifter" - they would probably have
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ever have pneumonia?
Twice in two years, about 27 years ago.
...out of work for well over 2 months.
I Got an antibiotic prescription, and was fully recovered in less than two days each time. I started to feel a massive improvement in about two hours It was not a significant event, though I had to pay the entire $600 medical bill out of pocket (no insurance coverage at the time) each time.
WWIII = ignorance flag. (Score:2)
" That is fueling a bigger problem (think WWIII)"
Nice false choice fallacy. Russia is in no position to wage a "world" war and is in no way a superpower. It cannot do power projection and war is expensive. War offers no prospect of economic gain. An oil war in the Persian Gulf would be wonderful for the West now we can produce our own energy! This isn't 1974 (I was around then, too) and an oil supply interruption from the Gulf would only hurt nations Putin can't afford to hurt, like China and India.
Russia c
Shipping packages from home (Score:2)
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The new gig for people who live in vans and RVs.
But they don't stay home (Score:2)