Google, Facebook, Amazon ask employees to work from home in Seattle over coronavirus fears
4 years, 10 months ago

Google, Facebook, Amazon ask employees to work from home in Seattle over coronavirus fears

Hindustan Times  

Alphabet Inc’s Google on Thursday joined Amazon.com Inc, Facebook Inc and Microsoft Corp in recommending employees in the Seattle area to work from home, after many were infected with the coronavirus in the region. Seattle health authorities have urged companies to allow their employees to work from home as much as possible, stagger shifts to ease commuter congestion on public transportation, and avoid large work-related gatherings.) Facebook employs more than 5,000 in the area and Google about 4,500, according to media reports Seattle health authorities have urged companies to allow their employees to work from home as much as possible, stagger shifts to ease commuter congestion on public transportation, and avoid large work-related gatherings. Microsoft said on Wednesday that some “essential” employees should continue to go to their work locations and that the company would follow government guidelines for disinfecting its sites for essential personnel.

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Amazon chief Andy Jassy warns reluctant employees to work from office thrice a week
1 year, 4 months ago

Amazon chief Andy Jassy warns reluctant employees to work from office thrice a week

The Hindu  

Amazon chief Andy Jassy has ordered reluctant employees to come work from office, saying that staff would work on-site at least three days a week and that the situation would likely not “work out” for employees who could not commit to the decision even if they disagreed with it. In a blog post on February 17, Jassy had said Amazon …

Amazon pushes back return to office to January due to COVID
3 years, 5 months ago

Amazon pushes back return to office to January due to COVID

The Hindu  

Amazon has pushed back its return-to-office date for tech and corporate workers until January as COVID-19 cases surge nationally due to the more contagious delta variant. The surge of the delta variant of the coronavirus has upended many companies’ plans to bring office workers back this fall, a drive already complicated by efforts to accommodate widespread employee preference for flexible …

Amazon pushes back return to office to January due to COVID
3 years, 5 months ago

Amazon pushes back return to office to January due to COVID

Associated Press  

SEATTLE — Amazon has pushed back its return-to-office date for tech and corporate workers until January as COVID-19 cases surge nationally due to the more contagious delta variant. The surge of the delta variant of the coronavirus has upended many companies’ plans to bring office workers back this fall, a drive already complicated by efforts to accommodate widespread employee preference …

Google And Facebook Mandate Vaccines For Employees At U.S. Offices
3 years, 5 months ago

Google And Facebook Mandate Vaccines For Employees At U.S. Offices

NPR  

Google And Facebook Mandate Vaccines For Employees At U.S. Offices Enlarge this image toggle caption Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Google and Facebook will require U.S. employees to be vaccinated against the coronavirus before returning to the company's offices, the tech giants said on Wednesday. In a blog post, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the vaccine mandate would apply …

Google says 20% of its workers will be remote after the pandemic
3 years, 8 months ago

Google says 20% of its workers will be remote after the pandemic

LA Times  

Google says it expects that about 20% of its workforce will continue to work remotely after its offices reopen this fall, while about 60% will have hybrid routines consisting of about three days in the office and two days “wherever they work best.” The remaining 20% can change their location to a different Google office. “The future of work is …

After Months of Work From Home, Amazon to Bring Employees Back to Offices Soon
3 years, 9 months ago

After Months of Work From Home, Amazon to Bring Employees Back to Offices Soon

News 18  

Amazon plans to have its employees return to the office by fall as the tech giant transitions away from the remote work it implemented for many workers due to the coronavirus pandemic. The company had previously given its return-to-office date as June 30, but questions remained as to whether the company would allow some of its 60,000 Seattle-area office employees …

Google to keep most of its employees at home until July 2021
3 years, 10 months ago

Google to keep most of its employees at home until July 2021

News 18  

Google to keep most of its employees at home until July 2021 Last Updated: July 28, 2020, 00:47 IST Google has decided that most of its 200,000 employees and contractors should work from home through next June, a sobering assessment of the pandemic's potential staying power from the company providing the answers for the world's most trusted internet search engine. …

Microsoft bring change in work culture, to let employees work from home permanently
4 years, 2 months ago

Microsoft bring change in work culture, to let employees work from home permanently

India TV News  

As the threat of the COVID-19 pandemic still looms large across the world, technology giant Microsoft has decided to throw open an option to its employees to work from home permanently. Microsoft will allow employees to work from home freely for less than 50 per cent of their working week, or for managers to approve permanent remote work. "The Covid-19 …

Google asks workers who went abroad for Covid to return
4 years, 3 months ago

Google asks workers who went abroad for Covid to return

Live Mint  

Alphabet Inc.’s Google advised workers companywide to return to the country where they’re employed by the end of the year, according to a person familiar with the matter. In Ireland, Google’s European headquarters, many technology employees who temporarily left the country during the worst of the pandemic “have been asked to return by year-end, partly due to tax and legal …

COVID-19: Google employees to work from home until July 2021
4 years, 5 months ago

COVID-19: Google employees to work from home until July 2021

India Today  

With the coronavirus pandemic refusing to slow down, Google has some new working plans for its employees. A report claims that Google is planning to make its 200,000 full-time and contract employees work remotely until July 2021. “To give employees the ability to plan ahead, we are extending our global voluntary work from home option through June 30, 2021, for …

Apple tells ALL its 12,000 HQ staff to work from home with immediate effect
4 years, 10 months ago

Apple tells ALL its 12,000 HQ staff to work from home with immediate effect

Daily Mail  

Apple advised all 12,000 employees at its Cupertino headquarters to work from home on Friday amid heightened coronavirus concerns as the death toll in the US increased to 15 and the number of confirmed cases rose to more than 250. Facebook also told employees in its San Francisco Bay offices to stay at home on Friday and cancel all business …

'No one has a playbook for this': US companies highlight challenges faced by workplaces in countering coronavirus
4 years, 10 months ago

'No one has a playbook for this': US companies highlight challenges faced by workplaces in countering coronavirus

Firstpost  

Microsoft, Amazon, Ford Motor, CNN, Citigroup and Twitter have put employees through work-from-home drills, dusted off emergency-response plans and ordered increasingly stringent safety measures to protect their workers San Francisco: At Facebook on Thursday, the questions from spooked employees came thick and fast. Amazon said this week that two employees in Europe, who had been in Milan, were infected with …

Virus prompts thousands of Seattle tech workers to work from home
4 years, 10 months ago

Virus prompts thousands of Seattle tech workers to work from home

Al Jazeera  

Alphabet Inc’s Google on Thursday joined Amazon.com Inc, Facebook Inc and Microsoft Corp in recommending employees in the Seattle area work from home, after many were infected with the coronavirus in the region. Seattle-headquartered Amazon recommended that employees in the area work from home through the end of the month, after an employee at its South Lake Union office complex …

Amazon asks staff in Seattle work to from home after employee contracts coronavirus
4 years, 10 months ago

Amazon asks staff in Seattle work to from home after employee contracts coronavirus

CNN  

Atlanta CNN Business — Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft are all encouraging employees in the Seattle area to work from home due to concerns about the novel coronavirus as the outbreak in Washington grows. “We are recommending that employees in Seattle Bellevue who are able to work from home do so through the end of the month,” an Amazon spokesperson …

Twitter tells employees to work from home as tech firms react to coronavirus
4 years, 10 months ago

Twitter tells employees to work from home as tech firms react to coronavirus

LA Times  

Twitter has told employees they should work from home if possible to reduce the risk of spreading coronavirus. Twitter on Monday became the first major U.S. corporation to strongly encourage its employees to work from home to avoid spreading coronavirus. “Beginning today, we are strongly encouraging all employees globally to work from home if they’re able,” the San Francisco-based social …

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