While other companies are heeding public health requests to allow work from home, Costco Wholesale Corp. says its head office employees in Issaquah must report to work.

Last week, health officials in King County asked workplaces to allow people who can work from home to do so. Amazon, Microsoft, and hundreds of other companies took that advice.

But at Costco, office workers are being told they must continue to report to their offices for equity's sake.

In an email Costco CEO W. Craig Jelinek reminds workers that the vast majority of Costco employees are in stores and warehouses, and don't have the option to work from home.

“This decision may be unpopular with some, but we consider it a matter of equity and fairness.”

Both Costco and Amazon each have about 250,000 warehouse workers.