Amazon restricts employee travel in US, Google restricts travel to Italy, Iran, Japan, and South Korea as a Google employee in Zurich is diagnosed with COVID-19
A Google employee in Switzerland has a confirmed case of the virus — Google is preventing employees from traveling to Italy …
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Discussion
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@nmoekijat
Ninik Moekijat
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Google employee has tested positive for the coronavirus. The employee was at the Zurich office. Google is restricting employee travel to Italy, Iran, Japan, South Korea, which have all seen a spike in COVID19 cases.Uber also restricted employee travel. https://www.cnbc.com/...
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@balajis
Balaji S. Srinivasan
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Given the complexity and physicality of Amazon's business, this could not have been an easy decision. This is probably the signal for every VC and pure software company to stop travel and go to remote work. https://www.businessinsider.com.au/ ...
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@sabena_siddiqi
Sabena Siddiqi
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The infected employee was not symptomatic while they were in their office, and their current condition is unknown. https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
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@jonostrower
Jon Ostrower
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Amazon is the number 12 buyer of corporate travel in the U.S.. The company spent $220 million in 2018 on air travel. https://twitter.com/...
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@howroute
@howroute
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Amazon tells all 798,000 employees to halt travel, in US and internationally, over #coronavirus fears. https://www.businessinsider.com.au/ ...
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@wandrme
Seth Miller
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For those wondering when the Corona virus concern would hit domestic US business travel, here's your answer. I expect other major companies to follow. Not necessarily because the likelihood of infection is high, but because it still isn't worth the risk. #COVID19 #AvGeek https://…
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@garyleff
Gary Leff
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I'm taking COVID-19 pretty seriously but this seems like an overreaction. https://twitter.com/...
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@tristanghill
Tristan
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not using google anymore, I dont wanna catch that shit https://twitter.com/...
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@endgameww3
@endgameww3
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Looks like Amazon knows whats fixing to hit here... Amazon tells employees to pause non-essential travel in U.S. due to coronavirus https://www.cnbc.com/...
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@robaeprice
Rob Price
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The Google employee was in the Zurich office prior to showing symptoms. It's not clear what their condition is, or where they are now. https://twitter.com/...
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@whatthebit
Stefan Constantine
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Forget about China, $AMZN is straight up telling employees to not even bother traveling around the United States in order to avoid corona. https://www.cnbc.com/...
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@robaeprice
Rob Price
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SCOOP: A Google employee has tested positive for the coronavirus, and the company is further restricting employee travel to Italy, Iran, Japan, and South Korea. https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...