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
Read More »Google employees working from home until summer 2021: Report
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
Read More »Google Home: 5 ways your smart speaker is a wiz with words
Google Home can help you out in a pinch if you’re stuck on a crossword clue. Dale Smith/CNET Google Home ($99 at Crutchfield) understands
Read More »Google Home: 9 simple things it still can’t do, but Alexa can
The Google Nest Mini replaced the Google Home Mini last year and muddied the waters of Google’s branding even further (see no. 4). James Martin/CNET … Source link
Read More »Google Home: 9 things you might be disappointed to discover your smart speaker can’t do
The Google Nest Mini replaced the Google Home Mini last year and muddied the waters of Google’s branding even further (see no. 4). James Martin/CNET … Source link
Read More »Better Home for Work: Google to revamp Gmail for corporates
Google is revamping its G Suite kit in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. The company, ahead to next week’s Google Cloud conference, has announced that the major update will transform its G Suite productivity tools into a unified app for all of Google’s platforms, including Gmail, Chat, Rooms and Meet. To curb the problem of constant switching between communication platforms a user might face to keep up with the work from home corporate industry, Google has integrated all its subsidiary… Source link
Read More »Google Home tips: 32 of the coolest and quirkiest things your voice assistant can do
Google Nest Minis come in four distinct “flavors”: Sky (blue), coral (orange), charcoal (black), and chalk (gray). James Martin/CNET … Source link
Read More »