Alphabet’s Google mentioned on Thursday it’s indefinitely pushing again its January return-to-office plan globally amid rising issues over the Omicron variant of the coronavirus and a few resistance to company-mandated vaccinations.

Google in August had mentioned it will count on employees to return in about three days every week from January 10 on the earliest, ending its voluntary work-from-home coverage.

On Thursday, Google executives informed workers that the corporate would delay the deadline past that date. Insider first reported the information.

Google mentioned the replace was according to its earlier steerage {that a} return to workplaces would start no sooner than January 10 and rely on native situations.

Nearly 40 % of US workers have come into an workplace in current weeks, Google mentioned, with greater percentages in different components of the world.

But CNBC reported final week that tons of of workers have protested the corporate’s vaccination mandate for these engaged on US authorities contracts.

Google was one of many first corporations to ask its workers to do business from home throughout the pandemic. It has about 85 places of work throughout practically 60 nations.

Europe has up to now recorded 79 circumstances of the Omicron variant, first detected in southern Africa final month, the European Union’s public well being company mentioned earlier on Thursday.