Google recommends all North American employees work remotely until at least April 10
New York (CNN Business)Google parent company Alphabet is recommending that all of its North America employees work from home through April 10 due to coronavirus, according to an email shown to CNN.
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Discussion
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@sundarpichai
Sundar Pichai
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Contributing to social distancing if you are able to, helps the overall community spread and most importantly, will help offset the peak loads through critical healthcare systems and also saves it for people in need. (based on expert advice). Please contribute if you are able to …
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@jolingkent
Jo Ling Kent
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Confirmed — Google is recommending *all* of its North American employees work from home due to #coronavirus concerns. Biggest company to do this so far. Parent company Alphabet has more than 100,000 employees most of whom work in the US.
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@inafried
Ina Fried
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Google has also set up a fund to ensure sick pay for temporary workers, hourly workers and contractors globally. https://blog.google/...
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@cc_chapman
C.C. Chapman
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“Our goal is to reduce the density of people in offices, which expert advice suggests may slow down the spread of #COVID-19 and reduce the burden on the local community and health resources.” - @Google https://www.cnbc.com/...
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@robaeprice
Rob Price
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Scoop: Google is now recommending all of its tens of thousands of North American employees work from home due to COVID-19. It's one of the biggest remote-work orders by any company to date. https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
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@ekp
Ellen K. Pao
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Kudos to Google for proactively offering paid sick leave to all employees, including temporary staff and vendors https://twitter.com/...
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@martinvars
Martin Varsavsky
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In the USA tech platforms do what in other countries the government does. Soon they will be testing patients for coronavirus. https://twitter.com/...
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@sullycnbc
Brian Sullivan
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Completely empty massive google campus will be something to see https://twitter.com/...
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@ninaandtito
K. Louise Neufeld
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This is what corporate responsibility looks like. And y'all KNOW how I feel about Google. Maybe they're trying to reclaim their old motto: don't be evil. https://twitter.com/...
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@jetscott
Scott Stein
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It's only Tuesday https://twitter.com/...
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@carlquintanilla
Carl Quintanilla
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Starting to think Google may know a thing or two about data and virality. #COVID19 https://twitter.com/...
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@robotbeat
Chris
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I feel like we haven't really grasped the higher order effects of this. https://twitter.com/...