Google Offers Rs 70,000 To Employees For Work From Home, To Reopen Offices From July 6

With the COVID-19 lockdown going into place, the entire world is locked into their homes. People are working from home, students are learning from home, and after two months,?

it’s getting more suffocating with every passing day.?

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But with COVID-19 showing no signs of stopping, we saw tech conglomerates allow employees to work from home for the whole of 2020.?

However, now, Google has announced to its employees that it will be reopening its offices starting July 6, for whoever who wishes to return. He has also stated the fact that this will be a gradual process with 10 percent of building capacity in the initial stage. Sundar Pichai aims to ramp this up to 30 percent of building capacity by September 2020.

In case some employees are hesitant to return to their desks and work in an office environment with their colleagues (working from home surely has its perks) Google will allow employees to expense up to $1000 which is approximately Rs 70,000 to gear up their homes, maybe for a better desk, or a more ergonomic chair or another set of monitors for better multitasking.?

This comes at a time when Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey announced that their workforce can choose to work from home till the end of this year.?

Jack Dorsey’s Twitter even went to the extent of saying that they can work from home forever.?

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It stated in an office email to its employees has revealed that they would allow employees to work from home permanently, even after COVID-19 pandemic is over.?

Only people from maintenance staff and other roles that require physical presence would be required to be present at work.?

Alternatively, Microsoft Chief Satya Nadella, in a conversation with the New York Times, stated how he misses physical meetings as opposed to video conferencing and why he’s not very happy with work from home being a permanent norm, "What I miss is when you walk into a physical meeting, you are talking to the person that is next to you, you're able to connect with them for the two minutes before and after," he said.