Amazon will completely enable warehouse workers to maintain their cellphones with them at work after quickly allowing them through the pandemic, Vice has reported. “We recognize the desire for employees to keep their mobile phones with them inside facilities, and the last two years have demonstrated that we can safely do so,” an inside message seen by Motherboard said. “Therefore, we are making the temporary phone policy permanent worldwide, in all of our operations facilities.”

Amazon deliberate to reinstate the cellular gadget ban following the COVID-19 pandemic. However, when its Edwardsville, Illinois warehouse collapsed in a twister, killing six individuals, offended associates demanded everlasting cellphone entry for security causes. They delivered a petition to 6 Amazon warehouses in December, saying “taking our phones away isn’t about safety, it’s about controlling us.” Workers who voted to unionize at Amazon’s Staten Island facility additionally made cellular phone entry a key demand. 

Amazon subsequently backtracked on the concept “until further notice,” and has now completely eliminated the ban. Meanwhile, 1,500 employees at one other Staten Island warehouse are voting on whether or not or to not unionize, with the vote counting set to start out on May 2nd. Amazon averted penalties within the warehouse collapse, however the US security watchdog OSHA requested the corporate to assessment its procedures after discovering points with its Emergency Action Plan (EAP).