Online giant Amazon announced two key personnel policies changes–one regarding marijuana use and the other relating to the number and length of breaks their employees take–in an effort to make the company a more attractive employer, CNN reports.
In conjunction with its support of state and federal governments decriminalizing marijuana, Amazon announced that it will no longer include marijuana in its pre-employment drug tests. It will continue to maintain its ban on marijuana use for positions regulated by federal Department of Transportation rules, such as commercial drivers, and it will include marijuana in its tests when investigating workplace accidents, as it does with alcohol and other substances.
Amazon also announced that it will cancel its program known as its “Time off Task” policy, which measured how many breaks employees took and how much time they took on those breaks. This policy has been blamed by critics for employee practices like urinating in bottles while they’re working so they do not cut down on the metric.