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Google Delays Office Return: See What CEO Sundar Pichai Told Employees

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Google Delays Office Return: See What CEO Sundar Pichai Told Employees

Alphabet-owned Google is extending its voluntary return-to-office coverage via January subsequent yr, CEO Sundar Pichai mentioned on Tuesday, citing uncertainty attributable to the COVID-19 pandemic in lots of elements of the world.

The fast unfold of the extremely contagious Delta coronavirus variant can also be making corporations rethink their masks mandates and vaccination insurance policies.

“Beyond January 10, we will enable countries and locations to make determinations on when to end voluntary work-from-home based on local conditions,” Pichai mentioned in an electronic mail to staff.

Hi Googlers,

The COVID-19 pandemic has been a humbling problem for all of us and I proceed to be impressed by the way in which our groups are navigating via it. In spite of those challenges, I’m glad to say that numerous places of work globally are already open for enterprise, and we’re welcoming again tens of hundreds of Googlers on a voluntary foundation. Given that situations all over the world are nonetheless extremely variable, I needed to share how we’re planning to strategy the subsequent few months:

  • First, as places of work proceed to reopen, we hope to see extra groups coming collectively the place attainable, whether or not or not it’s for normal crew conferences, brainstorming periods round a whiteboard, or out of doors socials. For some areas, situations are beginning to enhance, but in lots of elements of the world the pandemic continues to create uncertainty. Acknowledging that, we’ll lengthen our world voluntary return-to-office coverage via January 10, 2022 to present extra Googlers flexibility and selection as they ramp again.
  • Beyond January 10, we’ll allow international locations and areas to make determinations on when to finish voluntary work-from-home primarily based on native situations, which differ enormously throughout our places of work. To be certain that everybody has ample time to plan, you will have a 30-day heads-up earlier than you are anticipated again within the workplace.
  • Finally, encouraging Googlers to relaxation and recharge throughout this time stays a giant precedence so we’ll plan two extra world reset days subsequent quarter: October 22 and December 17. 

The highway forward could also be just a little longer and bumpier than we hoped, but I stay optimistic that we’ll get via it collectively. It’s heartening to see Googlers beginning to come again to extra places of work globally. The skill to reconnect in individual has been re-energizing for many people, and can make us much more efficient within the weeks and months forward. Thanks for all the good work to date; look ahead to a busy This fall as we proceed to search out new methods to be useful to folks in all places. 

-Sundar

In the previous couple of weeks, corporations together with Amazon and Lyft delayed their return-to-office timelines to 2022 for US staff because of the pandemic.

Google had earlier delayed its return-to-office coverage from September to October. It was one of many first corporations to ask its staff to earn a living from home because of the well being disaster.

© Thomson Reuters 2021


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