Google pushes its obligatory return to workplace date into 2022

In an electronic mail to staff at the moment, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said that though “we are welcoming back tens of thousands of Googlers on a voluntary basis,” the corporate will prolong its voluntary return to work coverage till not less than January tenth, 2022. After that date, the present plan is to have international locations and areas make obligatory return to work choices relying on native situations.

The most up-to-date plan shared publicly would’ve pushed Google staff again to the workplace sooner or later in September, however that gained’t occur. Whenever its workplaces anticipate to have staff there in-person, Pichai reiterated that there can be a 30-day heads up first.

The letter didn’t immediately cite the Delta variant, however waves of an infection have once more wrangled plans of a number of Big Tech corporations as they think about when and have staff in workplaces once more. In May, Pichai outlined a brand new hybrid schedule of three in-office days per week, however it will likely be a number of months earlier than that’s in play for a lot of of Google’s staff.