The manual and Google will leave their employees to work remotely until July 2021, according to the newspaper The Wall Street Journal, citing a source in the company.
“Google will keep their employees at home, at least in the following July, making the search giant the first major American Corporation, which formalized such an extension of the remote work schedule in the face of a pandemic coronavirus”, – says the publication.
According to the newspaper, this decision will affect 200 thousand full-time employees and contractors. The sources admit that the other tech giants of the United States will delay the release of its workers in the offices until at least January 2020. Channel СNBC reports that the head of Google, Sundar Pichai has notified employees about the extension udalenka via mailings and quotes the text of the message.
“to give employees the opportunity to plan in advance, we extend our work remotely until June 30, 2021 for those professionals who do not have to be in the office”, – said Pichai in a letter to his subordinates.
Google closed their offices in March due to the spread of coronavirus infection. Originally the company was going to resume office on 6 July, but with the increasing number of cases of infection with coronavirus in California, Google officially extended “udalenka” to the end of the year.
Already did Facebook and Twitter has allowed its employees never to return to the office if they want to. According to the Johns Hopkins University, on July 27 in the US were 4 238 500 confirmed cases of coronavirus. 968 146 people died, 1 297 863 recovered.
