Amazon's phone ban criticized in wake of Illinois warehouse collapse

An Amazon warehouse in Illinois collapsed after it was hit by a tornado on Friday, killing at least six people. Now the retail giant is being criticized for not allowing workers to carry their mobile phones on the warehouse floor, preventing them from receiving weather warnings. Bloomberg reports that Amazon has been slowly reinstating its long-standing policy of banning mobile phones in its warehouses, after easing the prohibition amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. As such, Amazon's warehouse worker...