Some of the largest employers in the country say their workers will no longer be required to wear masks on the job. The development quickly followed announcements by seven states that they have dropped their indoor mask mandates.
Amazon and Walmart, two of the largest private employers in the U.S., have already begun to relax the mandates. Last week, both companies notified their U.S. employees that fully vaccinated staff no longer have to wear masks unless required by local regulations.
Goldman Sachs no longer requires workers to wear masks indoors, a policy put in place Monday, and the New York Stock Exchange has made masks optional on its trading floor for fully vaccinated workers.
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