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Google is pushing back its return-to-office date by three months, to Jan. 10, in a decision that reflects the spread of the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus. Sundar Pichai, the chief executive of Alphabet, Google’s parent company, informed employees of the plans in an email on Tuesday. He said that after Jan. 10, offices in different countries and locations will determine for themselves when to return based on local conditions, and that employees will get 30 days advance… Source link

HP Inc. (HPQ) reported better than expected fiscal third quarter earnings on Thursday evening, powered by a tight grip on costs in each of its business segments.  Third quarter sales at HP’s personal systems were unchanged versus a year ago. Sales for the printing segment rose 24% from a year ago. Operating profit margins in the personal systems segment rose 290 basis points from the prior year, and gained 540 basis points in the printing business. Here is how HP performed versus Wall… Source link

TOKYO — Yahoo Japan will vacate 40% of its Tokyo office space by November as it expects the COVID-necessitated work-from-home trend to gain permanence. The subsidiary of SoftBank-backed Z Holdings will return about 30,000 sq. meters, more than four soccer fields worth, of office space, when leases expire. It will empty out seven of 20 floors at its Kioi Tower headquarters, in Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward, and all five floors that it has in Akasaka K Tower, in Minato Ward. Only about 10% of Yahoo’s… Source link

TOKYO — Yahoo Japan will vacate 40% of its Tokyo office space by November as it expects the COVID-necessitated work-from-home trend to gain permanence. The subsidiary of SoftBank-backed Z Holdings will return about 30,000 sq. meters, more than four soccer fields worth, of office space, when leases expire. It will empty out seven of 20 floors at its Kioi Tower headquarters, in Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward, and all five floors that it has in Akasaka K Tower, in Minato Ward. Only about 10% of Yahoo’s… Source link

Google is adding an option to its Calendar service to let you show where you’re working on any given day of the week, the company has announced. The feature will start rolling out from August 30th for users on select Google Workspace plans, and will be accessible via Calendar’s settings menu alongside its existing working hours options, as well as on the weekly calendar view below where it shows each day’s dates. Available work locations include “Office,” “Home,”… Source link

With the recent rise of the Delta variant, many major American companies are now requiring full-time employees to get vaccinated before returning to the office. In the past few weeks, more companies have announced plans to mandate COVID-19 vaccinations for employees who are working at in-person offices. Cases for the novel coronavirus continue to rise due to the highly transmissible Delta variant, which now makes up more than half of all new COVID-19 cases in the U.S. The… Source link

In an email to staff, Google (GOOGL) CEO Sundar Pichai said the policy would roll out in the United States in the coming weeks, and in other regions in the following months as vaccines become more widely available. It’s not clear how Google plans to enforce the policy. “Getting vaccinated is one of the most important ways to keep ourselves and our communities healthy in the months ahead,” Pichai said. Later Wednesday, Facebook (FB) Vice President of People Lori Goler said that any employees… Source link

Google said Wednesday that it would require employees who returned to the company’s offices to be vaccinated against the coronavirus. It also said it would push back its official return-to-office date to mid-October from September, joining a host of other companies whose plans have been scrambled in recent days by the spread of the highly contagious Delta variant. Sundar Pichai, the chief executive of Alphabet, Google’s parent company, announced the news in a note to employees, which was… Source link

Google software engineers reported something in a recent survey that surprised higher-ups: they felt as productive working from home as they did before the pandemic. Internal research at the Alphabet Inc. unit also showed that employees want more “collaboration and social connections” at work, according to Brian Welle, a human resources vice president. Welle declined to provide exact figures but said “more than 75%” of surveyed employees answered this way. Most staff also… Source link

MOUNTAIN VIEW (KPIX) — Hundreds of Bay Area Google employees headed back to work on Monday, two months ahead of the company’s full reopening. Google is the latest of the tech giants in the Bay Area to slowly start phasing employees back into the office on Monday, offering a glimpse of post-Covid work life balance. READ MORE: Residential Fire In San Jose Displaces Family Of Six Mike Mozer, a research scientist at the company, described the return to the office after 16 months away as… Source link