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Google employees sign manifesto opposing COVID vaccine mandate

Hundreds of Google employees have signed and circulated a manifesto calling on the Big Tech giant to retract its COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Google has asked its more than 150,000 US employees to report their vaccination status to the company by Dec. 3 whether they plan to work in the office or not, CNBC reported, citing internal company documents. And all Google employees who work either directly or indirectly with government contractors are required to be… Source link

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Several hundred Google employees sign manifesto against vaccination mandate

Several hundred Google employees have signed and circulated a manifesto opposing the company’s vaccination mandate, posing the latest challenge for leadership as it approaches key deadlines for returning workers to offices in person. The Biden administration has ordered U.S. companies with 100 or more workers to ensure their employees are fully vaccinated or regularly tested for Covid-19 by Jan. 4. In response, Google has asked its more than 150,000 employees to upload their vaccination… Source link

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Google employees sign manifesto against widened vaccine mandate

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google Anindito Mukherjee | Bloomberg | Getty Images Several hundred Google employees have signed and circulated a manifesto opposing the company’s vaccine mandate, posing the latest challenge for leadership as it approaches key deadlines for returning workers to offices in person. The Biden administration has ordered U.S. companies with 100 or more workers to ensure their employees are fully vaccinated or regularly tested for Covid-19 by Jan. 4. In response, Google has… Source link

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Google executives tell employees it can compete for Pentagon contracts without violating its principles.

Google executives told employees last week in a companywide meeting that it is interested in a Pentagon contract for cloud computing and that working for the military would not necessarily conflict with principles created by the company for how its artificial intelligence technology would be used. Google is pursuing the contract three years after an employee revolt forced the company to abandon work on a Pentagon program that used artificial intelligence and to establish new guidelines… Source link

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Yandex N : Employees Win International Collegiate Programming Contest

Valeriya Ryabchikova, a junior software developer with Yandex’s e-commerce platform Yandex.Market, has won the 44thInternational Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) in Moscow as part of a team of three representing Nizhny Novgorod University. The silver medal was taken by a three-member team that included another Yandex employee, Aleksander Kernozhitsky, a student at Belarusian State University. At Yandex, Aleksander is working on distributed… Source link

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Target to spend $75 million on hiring fewer holiday workers, offering current employees more hours

Target (TGT) has devised a novel way to partially get around the looming (and likely severe) retail worker shortage for this year’s all-important holiday shopping season.  Invest even more in the retailer’s current workforce. Target said Thursday it will hire fewer workers this holiday season. But, it will provide 5 million more hours to its existing workforce at a total cost of $75 million. The company said it would have store leaders “check in” with existing workers to understand their… Source link

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Employees paying to be unvaccinated is ‘very much like smoking surcharges,’ expert explains

Amid widespread vaccine rollout and the recent full FDA authorization of the Pfizer (PFE) COVID-19 vaccine, many employers are now debating whether to mandate vaccinations among their employees and whether to financially deter unvaccinated individuals. Delta Air Lines (DAL), for example, recently announced that it will begin implementing a $200 monthly surcharge for all unvaccinated employees beginning Nov. 1. “The average hospital stay for COVID-19 has cost Delta $50,000 per person,” CEO Ed… Source link

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