Amazon has pushed back its return-to-office date for tech and corporate workers until January 2022 as COVID-19 cases surge nationally due to the delta variant.

Amazon will no longer offer COVID-19 specific leave for operations employees, according to internal documents. The company will also stop contact tracing and site-wide notifications about positive ...

Amazon, employees say, has been loath to make the tests compulsory for fear of alienating the Covid skeptics in its ranks. The same has held true for forcing workers to get vaccinated.

Christian Smalls holds a sign at Amazon building during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in the Staten Island borough of New York City, U.S., March 30, 2020.

Amazon's boss has announced that all staff are to return to the office five days a week next year, "the way we were before the onset of Covid". In a memo to employees, chief executive Andy Jassy ...