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Google’s painters can continue to operate from home until July 2021, making it the first first-generation company to expand its remote paint agreement until next summer in reaction to the global coronavirus pandemic.
In an email to painters Monday morning, Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai wrote: “To give painters the ability to plan ahead, we are expanding our global choice of voluntary paintings at home until June 30, 2021 for positions that don’t want to be in the office. . “
The announcement extends the company’s previous agreement that staff would return to their offices until January 2021.
According to the Wall Street Journal, which announced the news for the first time, the expansion will feature “almost all” of the parent company Alphabet’s 200,000 employees, adding subcontractors and full-time workers, at the company’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, and at headquarters in the United States, United Kingdom, India, Brazil and elsewhere.
The company has already reopened 42 offices worldwide, reports CNN Business, smaller offices in countries less affected by the pandemic, such as Australia, Greece and Thailand.
According to the Journal, Pichai reached the resolution after discussing the plans with an internal organization of senior executives. You would have been encouraged to expand the optional remote option after reviewing workers whose families will have to plan a dubious school year that may involve only home courses as well as tenants who want their next 12-month leases.
“I know it hasn’t been easy,” Pichai wrote in the memo, after the Journal reported on the extent of the drawing closure. “I hope this gives you the flexibility you want to balance the task and take care of yourself and those you enjoy over the next 12 months.”
Google was one of the first giant corporations to present such staff with paintings from home in early March to prevent the spread of coronavirus. The company has stated in the past that staff with special considerations, such as those who care about members of the family circle, will have more time to return when offices reopen.
In May, Pichai told Wired that Google does not plan to move absolutely in the future. Given this position, Mehul Patel, executive director of Contracted Job Generation, says the extension of Google’s house paints is a “pretty predictable alternative.”
“I’m not surprised by this, as [Pichai] in the past has made it clear that it doesn’t aim to allow painters to paint from the house permanently,” Patel told CNBC Make It. “It also makes sense to look at the scale of Google’s hardware progression. We have a tendency to promptly associate Google with online search, Google Maps and other software products, however, there is a lot of hardware progression that is very difficult to do. . a remote executive, so I think he probably played a role in his resolve to stay in his physical offices.”
Meanwhile, Twitter made headlines in early May by declaring that painters can simply paint from their homes “forever” if they wish, even after the threat of a pandemic has disappeared. Shortly thereafter, Facebook announced that eligible painters may request a permanent remote painting agreement, and CHIEF executive Mark Zuckerberg estimates that part of the organization will continue to paint remotely over the next five to ten years.
Other primary-generation corporations, such as Amazon and Apple, have asked staff to return in January 2021. But Patel says he’s “absolutely” sure that other primary-generation corporations will also delay their return-to-power dates until 2021.
“A lot of corporations tend to wait and see what those tech giants are going to do and then use those signals to tell their own strategies,” Says Patel. “Whether you follow the example of Google or Facebook, you’ll actually have the exclusive desires of your own business, because remote paintings will mean anything else for every company. Some would possibly be 100 percent away, others possibly distributed groups but maintaining a head office, some may decide to make group paintings from home, but only in the same time zone; there is a myriad of tactics to manipulate it, but I am firmly convinced that remote paintings will remain a key trade initiative in the future. future.”
He says Google’s announcement of a back-to-power, delayed date can be a blow to tech personnel in the hope that completely remote fixes will become the norm, especially in Silicon Valley.
“Google’s ad is one of the first signs that if you leave [the Bay Area], you can give up certain business opportunities, such as the ability to work at Google,” says Patel. “On the employer side, if you are a Silicon Valley-based company and want to adopt permanent distance paints, you can use it as a promotional point to attract the skill of generations who have already left the Bay Area.
“Without a doubt,” says Patel, “adopting remote paints gives employers access to a much broader talent pool and, in turn, opens the door to giant applicants living outdoors in the Bay Area to get jobs at corporations that were in the geographically limited past.”
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