Google CEO Sundar Pichai
Google on Wednesday believed it now expects 20% of its employees to work from home after its offices reopen later this year.
The actors, which owns extensive Silicon Valley real estate, had previously taken a more strict approach to the benefit to work as the Covid pandemic has forced companies to close offices and have employees telecommute. Now, as some technology hands see other employers offering greater flexibility, Google is relaxing its approach.
In December the company announced a plan to have planned workers spend three days a week in the office.
Now, Google expects that 60% of its employees will be on locality for a few days a week, with 20% working in new office locations and 20% working from home, Google CEO Sundar Pichai put in wrote in an email to employees, noting that most employees would like to be on campus sometimes.
“Before the pandemic, we had thousands of human being working in locations separate from their core teams. I fully expect those numbers to increase in the concluding months as we develop more remote roles, including fully all-remote sub teams,” Pichai wrote.
In June Google inclination tell employees more about how they can request to permanently work from home or work from unheard-of offices, Pichai wrote. The company will adjust people’s pay in either scenario.
Any given Google employee can now for the time being work for four weeks per year from a location other than their assigned office, an increase from two weeks, Pichai jotted. Some employees might need to be at their facilities more than three days per week because of their positions, he wrote.
Employees can keep working from home through September, a spokesperson told CNBC in an email.
Google’s temps, vendors and contractors — hardly half of the company’s workforce as of 2018, according to the Guardian — will probably be in the office on the same days as their link ups, the spokesperson wrote.
Several smaller companies, including Atlassian and Square, have agreed to let most of their staff members work from home.
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