Amazon.com Inc is briefly eradicating workers from a downtown Seattle office so staff don’t need to journey to an area that’s seen a spate of shootings, carjackings and different violent crimes.
“Given recent incidents near 3rd and Pine, we’re providing employees currently at that location with alternative office space elsewhere,” an Amazon spokesman mentioned in an emailed assertion. “We are hopeful that conditions will improve and that we will be able to bring employees back to this location when it is safe to do so.”
The office at 300 Pine St. is about three blocks from Pike Place Market, a well-liked Seattle vacationer vacation spot. Since Feb 21, there have been no less than three shootings, two stabbings and one carjacking in the area, in keeping with data from the Seattle Police Department’s Twitter account.
Last week, Mayor Bruce Harrell, flanked by legislation enforcement and native prosecutorial officers, talked about cracking down on crime in metropolis “hot spots”, together with the blocks across the Amazon office. Harrell mentioned he would put a cell police precinct at third Avenue and Pine Street.
About 1,800 Amazon staff are assigned to the office, which occupies a number of flooring above an previous Macy’s division retailer, however lots of them had been working remotely because of the pandemic, in keeping with the corporate. The office is about a half-mile from its primary headquarters on Seventh Avenue. – Bloomberg
