Google calls on all North American employees to work from home for new coronavirus measures



Google's parent company, Alphabet, has been informed that all North American employees, including employees at Google's headquarters, should work from home to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus. The request applies to more than 100,000 employees working in 26 offices in the United States and Canada.

Google has asked all of its North America employees to work from home-CNN

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/10/tech/google-work-from-home-coronavirus/index.html

Google tells all North American employees to stay home
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/10/google-tells-all-north-american-employees-to-stay-home.html

Googlers in North America working remotely over coronavirus-9to5Google
https://9to5google.com/2020/03/10/google-north-america-coronavirus/

Google Tells All North America Staff to Work From Home-Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-10/google-tells-all-north-america-staff-to-work-from-home

Google has announced a decision to close all offices in China on January 30, 2020, in response to the pandemic of the new coronavirus in China.

Google closes all offices in China to deal with the new coronavirus-gigazine



Chris Rackow, Google's Vice President of Global Security, said on March 9, `` We recommend working from home wherever possible to protect Alphabet and the communities that support Alphabet from the new coronavirus. 'And sent them to North American employees to work from home until at least April 10th.

Google CEO Thunder Pichai also commented on Twitter: 'Keeping people as close as possible helps prevent the spread of the virus throughout society. More importantly, The goal is to reduce peaks and reduce the burden on the healthcare system so that those who really need it can be treated. '



This Circular applies to 11 offices in the United States and Canada. In offices such as San Francisco and New York, spontaneous telecommuting has been performed for a long time, but this notice raised the level of request from 'permitting spontaneous telecommuting' to 'recommended'. Was. As a result, more than 100,000 employees working in 26 offices in total have been required to switch to telecommuting.



On the same day, Google also issued a notice recommending 8,000 employees working in Ireland to work

from home, except for employees who need to work at the workplace, such as data center workers , from March 12th. You have been asked to switch to.

Thousands of employees are doing work that is not suitable for working at home, such as cleaning Google's office, supplying food to free employee canteens, etc. Members will continue to pay their salaries while the crisis of the new coronavirus continues.

As a similar initiative, Amazon , Microsoft , Twitter , Apple , Facebook, etc. recommend working from home for employees who work in some regions and cities, but work arrangements for all employees in North America It is unusual to switch to this example.



In addition, Adrian Crowther, who serves as the Google of the workplace environment officer on March 10, the establishment of 'COVID-19 (the new coronavirus infection) Fund' announcement . Google temporary workers and part-time employees who are infected with the new coronavirus or take sick leave to test for it are revealed to be able to receive the same salary as full-time employees .

'The majority of workers around the world can receive sick leave benefits from governments or employers, but not all. For example, in the United States, employees have paid sick leave,' said Crouser. Is not obliged to provide the employment system itself, 'he said.

Google's Ruth Polat, CFO, said in an email to employees, 'All Google offices are affected in some way by the new coronavirus. Given the global outbreak of the new coronavirus, Be prepared, because you may suddenly have to work from home. Take your laptop home for work every night. ' Suggested that there is sex.

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