Google will keep its 200,000 employees working from home until at least July NEXT YEAR amid coronavirus pandemic
- Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced the move in an email to his employees
- Twitter and Square allowed its employees to work from home permanently
- Facebook let staffers work from home, but is slashing pay if they leave Bay Area
- Amazon corporate workers can keep working from home until at least January
Alphabet Inc's Google will keep its employees home until at least next July due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai made the decision himself last week after debate among an internal group of top executives that he chairs, according to the Wall Street Journal.
In an email to employees, Pichai wrote: 'To give employees the ability to plan ahead, we are extending our global voluntary work from home option through June 30, 2021 for roles that don't need to be in the office.'
Google had earlier said it would begin reopening more offices globally as early as June this year, but most Google employees would likely work from home until the end of this year.
Tech giant Google will have its 200,000 employees working from home until at least the summer of 2021. The company's headquarters in Mountain View, California, is seen in the above image from June 2016
In an email to employees, Google CEO Sundar Pichai wrote: 'To give employees the ability to plan ahead, we are extending our global voluntary work from home option through June 30, 2021 for roles that don't need to be in the office.'
Earlier this year, several tech giants announced that they would allow most or all of its employees to continue working from home at least through the end of 2020.
In May, Jack Dorsey, the CEO of both Twitter and Square, told employees at both firms that they can continue working from home permanently if they chose to do so.
But some jobs that require the physical presence of employees at the office will still require those workers to show up.
'We've been very thoughtful in how we've approached this from the time we were one of the first companies to move to a work-from-home model,' a Twitter spokesperson said at the time.
'We'll continue to be, and we'll continue to put the safety of our people and communities first.'
Twitter was among the first companies to announce that it would allow its employees to work remotely permanently as the coronavirus outbreak forces companies to make unprecedented changes in offices across the globe
CEO Jack Dorsey emailed employees of both Twitter and Square in May saying when offices do finally open their doors, workers can choose to come in or continue working from afar
Twitter and other tech firms like Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Apple began to encourage employees to work from home beginning in March, when the coronavirus began to spread significantly in the United States.
Shortly after Twitter's announcement, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg also gave his employees the option of working from home - but with a catch.
Zuckerberg said that his company would reduce the salaries of Facebook employees who moved out of the San Francisco Bay Area and relocated to other areas where the cost of living is significantly lower.
The company, one of Silicon Valley's biggest employers, is giving US staffers who are approved to work remotely until January 1, 2021 to update the company on where they plan to base themselves, at which point their salaries will be adjusted to reflect the local cost of living.
'That means if you live in a location where the cost of living is dramatically lower, or the cost of labor is lower, then salaries do tend to be somewhat lower in those places,' Zuckerberg said in May.
'We'll adjust salary to your location at that point. There'll be severe ramifications for people who are not honest about this,' he added.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees that while they will be able to work remotely for the remainder of 2020
As of 2018, the median staff salary at the giant tech company was more than $240,000 annually.
Zuckerberg has taken a base salary of just $1 for the last three years, but received $22million in compensation by way of security in 2018. Nearly $3million went towards private jets.
Menlo Park, the California city where Facebook is headquartered, has a median home price of $2.4million.
Zuckerberg said he expects half of Facebook's workforce of 48,000 employees to take him up on the offer over the next five to 10 years.
Employees who attempt to wiggle around those compensation adjustments will be subject to 'severe ramifications,' he said, as the company needs to account for employee locations to avoid violating tax laws.
Similarly, Spotify followed Twitter and Facebook's lead to allow staffers to work from home until the end of the year.
Amazon initially told its corporate employees who can work from home that they will be allowed to continue to do so until at least October 2.
Last week, the Seattle-based online retailer adjusted its policy to allow most of its office-based employees to continue working from home until at least January 8, 2021.
'We continue to prioritize the health of our employees and follow local government guidance,' Amazon said in a statement.
Amazon has allowed corporate employees to work from home until at least January of 2021
'Employees who work in a role that can effectively be done from home are welcome to do so until January 8th.
'We have invested significant funds and resources to keep those who choose to come to the office safe through physical distancing, deep cleaning, temperature checks, and by providing face coverings and hand sanitizer.'
The work-from-home option does not apply to the company's large warehouse-based workforce, which includes many hourly and contract workers.
Last month, a lawsuit was filed against Amazon, which was accused of fostering the spread of the coronavirus by mandating unsafe working conditions, causing at least one employee to contract COVID-19, bring it home, and see her cousin die.
The complaint was filed on Wednesday in the federal court in Brooklyn, New York, by three employees of the JFK8 fulfillment center in Staten Island, and by family members.
One employee, Barbara Chandler, said she tested positive for COVID-19 in March and later saw several household members become sick, including a cousin who died on April 7.
The lawsuit said Amazon has made JFK8, which employs about 5,000, a 'place of danger' by impeding efforts to stop the coronavirus spreading, boosting productivity at the expense of safety.
It said Amazon forces employees to work at 'dizzying speeds, even if doing so prevents them from socially distancing, washing their hands, and sanitizing their work spaces.'
Amazon did not comment on the lawsuit, but said it has always followed guidance from health authorities and its workplace safety experts since the coronavirus pandemic began.
At least seven Amazon warehouse employees are thought to have died from COVID-19, according to The Verge.
The outlier among tech giants was Apple, which asked employees to start returning to the office last month.
The employees were asked to return its new Silicon Valley campus, which cost billions of dollars to build, because of hardware-development processes required them to work from the office, according to Bloomberg.
But Apple also told its workers that it does not expect a full return to offices until at least next year.
The company is also encouraging employees at its hundreds of retail shops nationwide to prepare for working remotely as the pandemic is likely to force stores to close.
A survey taken earlier this year found that 66 per cent of employees at tech hubs like Facebook, Twitter and Uber would move away from major cities if working from home becomes permanent.
This past spring, Google told employees who can work from home that they will continue to do so until at least January 1.
Both Google and Facebook plan to limit office capacity to less than 30 per cent in the months after they reopen their offices.
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