REUTERS: Amazon.com Inc plans to roll out temperature checks and face masks for staff at all its U.S. and European warehouses plus Whole Foods stores by early next week, a huge deployment for workers on the front lines of the coronavirus outbreak.
The plans, previously unreported, show how the world's largest online retailer is aiming to mitigate the major health risks facing its staff. Workers with high temperatures will have to stay home until they pass three days without a fever, the company said. Facing a shortage of labor to address a spike in customer orders, Amazon has largely avoided warehouse closures and last month said it would hire 100,000 people. It reported a full and part-time workforce of 798,000 as of Dec. 31.
By next week? Why not NOW? And why not several weeks ago?
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