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Google is erstwhile again postponing a instrumentality to the bureau for astir workers until mid-January, successful summation to requiring each employees to beryllium vaccinated erstwhile its sprawling campuses are afloat reopened.
The highly contagious delta variant of the coronavirus is driving a melodramatic spike successful COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations, starring companies to hold oregon scrap return-to-office plans aft astir 2 years of radical moving from home.
CEO Sundar Pichai said successful a blog station Tuesday that Google is delaying its planetary instrumentality to offices until Jan. 10. After that, helium said the institution volition fto countries and locations find erstwhile to extremity voluntary work-from-home policies "based connected section conditions, which alteration greatly crossed our offices."
He besides promised a 30-day heads up earlier workers are expected backmost successful the office. This is the 2nd clip successful small implicit a period that Google has delayed instrumentality plans—the past clip was successful late July, erstwhile it besides announced its vaccine mandate. Google, which is headquartered successful Mountain View, California, has much than 130,000 employees worldwide.
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