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Amazon agrees to allow warehouse employees phone access permanently

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Amazon has overturned its own ban and will now let warehouse employees keep their cell phones with them while they work, a move following months of criticism aimed at the company. "We SEE ALSO: Amazon's phone ban criticized in wake of Illinois warehouse collapse. Credit: JOHANNES EISELE/AFP via Getty Images.

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Following Tornado Tragedy, Amazon Employees Can Now Keep Cell Phones at Work

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Following a deadly incident in an Illinois warehouse and internal pressure, Amazon has decided to allow employees in all its operations facilities worldwide to keep their personal cell phones with them permanently while at work. Read more.

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Amazon Is Backing Off Its Cell Phone Ban Amid Safety Concerns

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After six workers died at an Amazon warehouse in Illinois that was hit by a powerful tornado on December 10, the company is walking back its plans to reinstate a workplace ban on cell phones. Read more.

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Amazon Faces Allegations It Harvested and Stored Sensitive Voice Data

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Amazon is being hit with a class-action suit alleging that the tech giant’s severs are storing biometric voice data from countless callers, in contravention of an Illinois privacy law. Read more.

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Warehouse Collapse in Edwardsville Is Making Workers Question Amazon’s Purported Phone Ban at Work

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million-square-foot Amazon warehouse that collapsed in Edwardsville, Illinois was among the buildings hit by a series of deadly tornadoes on Friday that swept across six states, killing dozens of people. The tragedy has put Amazon under scrutiny for purportedly not allowing its warehouse workers to have their… Read more.

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Creating Virtual Scenarios to Train Soft Skills in XR, with Friends With Holograms’ Cortney Harding

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You can buy it on Amazon, you can buy it at Best Buy. So you don’t have to build something that’s custom for like California, or Georgia, or Illinois, or New York. .” And the person I’ve talked to said, “Oh, we don’t have an Oculus Go.” ” because an Oculus Go costs $200.

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Creating Virtual Scenarios to Train Soft Skills in XR, with Friends With Holograms’ Cortney Harding

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You can buy it on Amazon, you can buy it at Best Buy. So you don’t have to build something that’s custom for like California, or Georgia, or Illinois, or New York. .” And the person I’ve talked to said, “Oh, we don’t have an Oculus Go.” ” because an Oculus Go costs $200.