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“To give employees the ability to plan ahead, we’ll be extending our global voluntary work from home option through June 30, 2021 for roles that don’t need to be in the office,” Google CEO Sundar Pichai wrote in a memo to employees, a copy of which was obtained by CNN Business. “I hope this will offer the flexibility you need to balance work with taking care of yourselves and your loved ones over the next 12 months.” And we can expect more companies, particularly its Silicon Valley neighbors,… Source link

07/28 Update below. This post was originally published on July 23 Confidence in Gmail took a hit earlier this month when a serious spam filter flaw sent potentially malicious emails direct to users’ inboxes. Now Google has revealed an ingenious way to win back users’ trust.  Gmail looks set to wipe out the threat of phishing emails PA Images via Getty Images MORE FROM FORBESGoogle Reveals Gmail’s Most Ambitious Ever UpgradesBy Gordon Kelly In an Source link

Google today announced its plans to build a new subsea cable with landing points in New York in the U.S. and Bude, U.K. and Bilbao, Spain in Europe. The new cable, named after the pioneering computer scientist Grace Hopper, will join Google’s various other private subsea cables like Curie between the U.S. and South America, Dunant between the U.S. and France and Equiano between Europe and Africa. The new cable is scheduled to go online in 2022 and will be built by SubCom, which… Source link

Beebe Healthcare has partnered with Intraprise Health to launch the Beebe Healthcare Covid -19 Screening Tool on both Apple Store and Android Google Play Store. Beebe is based in Lewes and has locations in coastal Sussex County. The app, now available, uses federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention evidence-based screening questions. Users can walk through the series of questions and then based on the finding – whether testing is recommended or not They can self-schedule testing… Source link

(Gray News) – Google is telling its employees they can work from home until about this time next year. CNN Business obtained an employee memo that outlines the plan. “To give employees the ability to plan ahead, we’ll be extending our global voluntary work from home option through June 30, 2021, for roles that don’t need to be in the office,” Google CEO Sundar Pichai wrote. “I hope this will offer the flexibility you need to balance work with taking care of yourselves and your loved… Source link

SAN FRANCISCO—Google will keep its employees home until at least next July, making the search-engine giant the first major U.S. corporation to formalize such an extended timetable in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. The move will affect nearly all of the roughly 200,000 full-time and contract employees across Google parent Alphabet Inc., and is sure to pressure other technology giants that have slated staff to return as soon as January. … Source link

Google plans to keep 200,000 full-time and contract employees working remotely until at least July 2021, The Wall Street Journal reported. Other tech firms have announced long-term plans to keep employees working from home due to restrictions from the coronavirus pandemic, but Google would be the first to extend remote working into the middle of next year. According to the WSJ, Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google parent company Alphabet, made the call last week following a meeting with top… Source link

Google employees will work from home at least until next July due to the coronavirus pandemic, a decision that makes the search engine company the first major U.S. corporation to commit to the year-long stay-at-home plan. According to a report in today’s Wall Street Journal, Google’s plan affects nearly all of the company’s 200,000 full-time and contract employees across Google parent Alphabet Inc. WaPo describes Google’s decision as among the “cautious camp of companies”… Source link

Google is asking employees to continue working from home until summer 2021, according to the Wall Street Journal’s Rob Copeland.  People familiar with the matter told the Journal that Google would announce as early as Monday that it had pushed its return-to-office date back to July 2021 for nearly all of its 200,000 employees.  The Journal reports that Google CEO Sundar Pichai made the decision to push back the reopening after there was debate among a group of top… Source link

FOX Business’ Hillary Vaughn reports on the Justice Department’s expected antitrust lawsuit targeting big tech this summer. Then, Cresset Wealth Management’s Jack Ablin weighs in on how potentially breaking up big tech would affect markets. CANBERRA, Australia — Australia’s consumer watchdog launched court action against Google on Monday alleging the technology giant misled account holders about its use of their personal data. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s… Source link