After a tornado hit a warehouse, Amazon reconsidered its plans to reinstate the phone ban

Driving China on December 14, 2021, Amazon is reconsidering plans to ban the use of mobile phones in warehouses after the emergence of a mutated strain of the new coronavirus and the death of six workers in a tornado last week.

For years, Amazon banned employees from using their phones in warehouse lobbies and asked them to keep them in lockers in their cars or near their lounges. The document shows that this rule was temporarily relaxed during the epidemic, but it is planned to resume in January next year. People familiar with the matter said Amazon's current thoughts on the matter were "uncertain."

An Amazon spokeswoman said the company's current policy allows all Amazon employees and delivery drivers to use their phones during work hours. But several workers from different states said their managers had reinstated the cellphone ban.