Google Scraps Returns to Office Plans During the Omicron Expansion

Google has also delayed the return of office workers to the US again due to exposure to the new coronavirus omicron variety raise alarms around the world and launch new bans.

In an email to full-time employees who were sent out Thursday, found by Price CNBC, the technical company said it will cancel its plans on January 10 and wait until 2022 to determine when its US employees can return to office for a longer period of time. Email to US employees did not mention the omicron difference. However, Google’s leadership in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa clearly pointed to “uncertainty surrounding COVID-19 and new restrictions,” which is why next month’s return was delayed. working in those countries, According to Inside.

Google had already announced that staff members would return to the office three days a week in Jan. 10 and receive enough vaccine to do so. In recent weeks, Google has opened 90% of its offices in the US About 40% of its employees have come to work, the company said.

While there is no clear timeline, Chris Rackow, Google’s vice president of national security, also said in an email that the company would allow a specific location to determine when to return their employees to office. The plan had it has already been revealed and CEO Sundar Photosi, who added that the teams did given “heads-” for 30 daysabove ”before waiting to enter.

The site will be supported by Google teams that respond to local events, which will help assess the “risk” of each office.

However, Rackow said Google encourages employees to come to the office “as circumstances allow, reconnect with colleagues face-to-face and begin to remember being in the office more often.”

“We will re-learn our collaborative music in 2022, which brings new opportunities and new challenges as we experiment with innovative ways of working together,” Rackow wrote.

A Google spokesman told CNBC that the delay was in line with plans already set by the company, which saw January 10 as the first return date. So far, however, the return of senior technology to offices is not as well known as the end of the epidemic. It still looks like other companies, like Apple, are supposed to launch a hybrid operator on Feb. 1, Facebook, and Amazon they will push back their goals.

“We will continue to know when the offices will reopen and start a week of mixed work depending on the situation, which is dynamic and varies from place to place,” Google said.