Google to give $1,000 each to employees working from home amid coronavirus pandemic

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Tech giant is taking "a gradual, phased approach" to returning employees to offices.

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Published: Wed 27 May 2020, 10:14 PM

Last updated: Thu 28 May 2020, 12:23 AM

Google will provide $1,000 to each of their employee working from home as an allowance for office supplies needed to work remotely.
CEO Sundar Pichai announced Tuesday that the as the staff continues to work from home, the allowance will help them to buy equipment and office furniture.
Meanwhile, Google is planning to reopen offices starting July 6, but Pichai said that many employees may continue working from home until September or next year due to coronavirus pandemic.
The Mountain View, California-based company, is taking "a gradual, phased approach" to returning employees to offices, Pichai wrote in an email to employees. However, employees will return "on a limited, rotating basis" with only about 10 per cent capacity working in a given office.
"We'll have rigorous health and safety measures in place to ensure social distancing and sanitisation guidelines are followed, so the office will look and feel different than when you left," Pichai wrote. "Our goal is to be fair in the way we allocate time in the office, while limiting the number of people who come in, consistent with safety protocols," he added, according to reports in Fox Business.
Pichai also stressed that Google will develop more flexibility in how the tech company's employees work in the future.


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