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Google Delays Mandatory Office Return To 2022 on Covid Surge (bloomberg.com) 61

Posted by msmash from the closer-look dept.
Google pushed back the date when its employees must return to the office until after Jan. 10, citing uncertainty related to the pandemic amid a resurgence of Covid-19 cases in various countries around the world. From a report: It will be optional for Google's staffers to work on campus until at least Jan. 10, Alphabet Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai wrote Tuesday in a memo to employees. The company will give workers 30 days notice before they're expected to go back to offices, but Pichai didn't specify a date when employees, based in the U.S. or elsewhere, must return. "Beyond January 10, we will enable countries and locations to make determinations on when to end voluntary work-from-home based on local conditions, which vary greatly across our offices," Pichai wrote. Google previously delayed a compulsory office return to Oct. 18. The internet giant has said it will ask employees to work in a "hybrid" model, with about 60% going back to the same offices as before the pandemic. In August, Google approved 85% of employee requests to work remotely or relocate once the company's offices fully reopen.
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  • They are censors [wikipedia.org]. They are anti-competitive [justice.gov] and they are also, obviously coronamoaners (big surprise).

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by ljw1004 ( 764174 )

      Good, hopefully that hurts them.

      Google is facing the exact same coronavirus landscape as every other company in the area, and in response they've ascertained that "delay mandatory return to work" is in their best interests.

      I don't get it. Are you saying "good" about the current levels of coronavirus and risks that everyone is facing? or "good" that they've ascertained their own best-interest course of action in response, and are following it?

  • Too many aren't vaccinating and breakthrough infections while uncommon are still a thing. Plus we still can vaccinate under 12s.

    What frustrates me is how many people I see extremely sick or dying because they're not getting vaxxed. And there's always some snake oil. I saw an article about people taking ivermectim talking about seeing worms in their poop... it wasn't worms, it was their intestinal lining.

    We really, really need a non partisan gov't campaign to teach critical thinking to adults. Of cou

    • We really, really need a non partisan gov't campaign to teach critical thinking to adults. Of course that would have a lot of knockon effects that I'm sure certain people aren't going to like (I'm lookin' at you Facebook and your doom scrollers).

      Yeah, that can't and won't happen for reasons other than Facebook and the like. As much as I'd like to see it, we have a large enough segment of the population convinced that any attempt to teach critical thinking is brainwashing that the very concept is more likely to throw people off the deep end than not. Heck, in some areas of the country, even the thought of teaching kids critical thinking causes apoplectic spasms from parents. I think it's too late to expect that sort of thing to get sorted out any

      • The white evangelical extremist facebook axis would mount another capitol insurrection over any attempt to teach critical thinking.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by crow ( 16139 )

      Under 12 can get vaccinated if they look 12 since you don't need ID or insurance. You just have to avoid pharmacies and medical facilities that already have the kid or your insurance in their system. Local vaccination clinics are the best option there.

      Lots of 10- and 11-year-olds are getting vaccinated, and a few 9- and even 8-year-olds.

  • It's a trap! (Score:3)

    by Random361 ( 6742804 ) on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @01:56PM (#61749315)
    It's a trap! Google is trying to enhance profiteering by cutting costs. They'll have employees work from home, then cut their pay based on where they live, like they've been threatening to do. (Sadly, probably not sarcasm.)
    • If Google pays somebody an extra $30,000 a year to afford a one-bedroom apartment and that person moves to somewhere they can get a one bedroom apartment without paying that $30,000 what difference does it make to the employee of Google stops paying them that $30,000? They never see the money it just goes in their bank account and write out to whoever owns the apartments they're renting.

      The main issue with work from home for Google is that they spent a lot of money on a very expensive campus that's wort

  • Google thinks you should work in their cloud but googlers should work in their cube farm. And smile that googly smile or HR.

  • Is it a surge in Covid or a surge in employee resignations? The world will never know.
  • Let's be honest and say that working from an office sucks, and that working from home rocks as long as your're honest about your work hours and put in your time. I've been working from home for the last four months and never been as productive. I get to avoid sitting next to people who I honestly would not like to sit next to outside of work. And don't even get me started on that huge time/productiviy sink office politics is....

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