Amazon Tells its NY and NJ Employees to Stay Home

As coronavirus continues to spread in the U.S., e-commerce giant Amazon has told its employees in the states of New York and New Jersey to work from home.

On Monday Amazon told the employees to work from home if they can throughout the month of March.

It was last week that the company told its San Francisco Bay Area employees, as well as Seattle and Bellevue, Washington office employees to stay at home too.

The company’s audiobook company Audible is headquartered in New Jersey and in New York employees work at Amazon Web Services and are 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.”

In February the company additionally 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.

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