Amid COVID surge, Amazon to require masks for warehouse workers regardless of vaccination status

Amazon holding vaccination event for thousands of workers at fulfillment center south of Seattle

An Amazon employee walks into a fulfillment center in Kent, Washington and is handed a mask by another employee with a pair of pliers before starting a shift in the huge parcel handling warehouse last June. (GeekWire file photo / Kurt Schlosser) A day after its office workers’ return to a personal environment was postponed … Read more

Facebook will require its US office workforce to be vaccinated

Igor Bonifacic

Facebook will require its employees to be vaccinated against the coronavirus before they can return to their headquarters in Menlo Park and other offices in the United States. “When our offices reopen, we will require a vaccination from anyone who comes to work at any of our US locations,” said Lori Goler, Facebook vice president … Read more

San Francisco to require all city workers be vaccinated for COVID-19

San Francisco to require all city workers be vaccinated for COVID-19

SAN FRANCISCO – In an announcement on Wednesday evening, the city of San Francisco told its 37,000 employees that they would either need to be vaccinated against COVID-19 or lose their jobs within 10 weeks of the Food and Drug Administration’s final approval of a coronavirus vaccine . This would make San Francisco the first … Read more

Free-to-play Xbox games no longer require Xbox Live Gold to play online

Igor Bonifacic

Starting today, all Xbox One and Xbox Series X / S owners can play free online multiplayer games without an Xbox Live Gold membership. Overall, this means that 50+ free titles no longer require a subscription to play with your friends online. Some of the most notable inclusions on the list are Apex Legends, Call … Read more

Calif. bill to require gender-neutral kids’ sections at some retailers

Calif. bill to require gender-neutral kids' sections at some retailers

Retail stores in California may need to become more gender neutral under the proposed legislation. State lawmakers are debating a new bill banning department stores with more than 500 employees from segregating products for children by gender. The restriction would prohibit separate areas and signage, and require online retailers with a physical location in the … Read more