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Amazon to Resume Worker Theft Screening, Request Phone Details


Amazon.com Inc. will resume metal-detector screening for employees leaving its warehouses — a theft-prevention measure suspended during the pandemic — and is asking workers to register their personal phones so security personnel know they aren’t stolen.

Employees at an Amazon fulfillment center in Robbinsville, New Jersey.Photographer: Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg Amazon.com Inc. will resume metal-detector screening for employees leaving its warehouses — a theft-prevention measure suspended during the pandemic — and is asking workers to register their personal phones so security personnel know they aren’t stolen. Amazon aims to gradually implement that policy at all US facilities — and resume theft screening — after starting in test locations, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the information is private.

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