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.

The company planned to begin informing employees at certain locations about the phone registration plan on Monday, according to people familiar with the matter. 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.

To register phones, employees ...