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Amazon just reported that nearly 20,000 of it’s employees working on the frontlines of the novel coronavirus outbreak have been infected since March!
The retail giant announced the news on its corporate blog earlier this month, reflecting on the number of COVID cases among it’s employees, including from subsidiary Whole Foods Market. This is huge!
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Amazon said 19,816 frontline employees have tested positive or been presumed positive since the pandemic started.
The Seattle-based company said that number is actually lower than the estimated 33,952 workers that would have tested positive given the rate of the general population for the virus.
“Since the beginning of this crisis, we’ve worked hard to keep our employees informed, notifying them of every new case in their building. We also want to share details and best practices for keeping employees safe with NGOs, governments and other companies,” they wrote.
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“As part of this commitment, we’ve decided to publicly share the COVID-19 infection rates among Amazon front-line employees — something few, if any, companies and no other major retailers have done. We hope other large companies will also release their detailed learnings and case rates because doing so will help all of us. This is not an arena where companies should compete; this is an arena where companies should help one another.”
Supermarket News reports that a food workers group responded to the news with a scathing rebuke of the company's safety standards.
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“Amazon’s confession that nearly 20,000 of its workers have been infected by COVID-19 is the most damning evidence we have seen that corporate America has completely failed to protect our country’s frontline workers in this pandemic,” UFCW International President Marc Perrone said in a statement on Thursday.
“Jeff Bezos has repeatedly demonstrated that profits will always come before the safety of the company’s employees in Amazon warehouses and Whole Foods grocery stores,” the group's leader continued. Yikes!
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Amazon has said that it's distributed more than 100 million face masks to its businesses worldwide, including Whole Foods Market, and that it has invested "hundreds of millions of dollars" towards better testing.
“All in, we’ve introduced or changed over 150 processes to ensure the health and safety of our teams, including distributing over 100 million face masks, implementing temperature checks at sites around the world, mandating enhanced cleaning procedures at all of our sites, and introducing extensive social distancing measures to reduce the risk for our employees,” they affirmed.
