Amazon drops mask requirements for vaccinated employees

Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN) is dropping its mask requirements for employees who are vaccinated from Covid-19 starting Friday, a move that will apply to corporate and warehouse workers. The Seattle-area tech giant told employees Thursday in an internal memo viewed by the Business Journal that a "sharp decline" in cases across the country coupled with increasing vaccination rates was putting the company on a "path to normal operations." Amazon confirmed the memo's details but declined to give additional information. Read More...

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Amazon’s PenPlace design earns key approval, heads into final stretch of reviews

PenPlace, the 3.2 million-square-foot second phase of Amazon.com Inc.’s second headquarters, has earned the key support of Arlington County staff as it heads into its final stretch of reviews. During the last Site Plan Review Committee meeting Thursday, Peter Schulz, a staffer with the Arlington planning division, said “staff has no major outstanding issues” with regard to PenPlace’s architecture and landscape design. “We would like to continue to work with the applicant on some minor things, including the security measures to make sure they’re in harmony with the wonderful design that they’ve proposed for the public space and for the architecture of the buildings,” Schulz said after members of Amazon’s design teams, NBBJ and Scape, presented their final designs.