Amazon Pushes Back Return to Office to January Due to COVID-19

Amazon Pushes Back Return to Office to January Due to COVID-19
A South Lake Union streetcar with an advertisement for Amazon.com's same-day delivery service passes by an Amazon office building in Seattle's South Lake Union neighborhood, Wash., on Nov. 13, 2018. Ted S. Warren/AP Photo
The Associated Press
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SEATTLE—Amazon has pushed back its return-to-office date for tech and corporate workers until January as COVID-19 cases surge nationally due to the more contagious delta variant.

Unlike its Seattle-area rival Microsoft and other tech giants, Amazon will not mandate employees receive the COVID-19 vaccine before they return to the office. Instead, the company said Thursday that unvaccinated employees will be required to wear masks in the office.