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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

The sequel to A Quiet Place Part released a month ago and it received massive love from the fans. The film revolves around the Abbott family (Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe) who face the terrors of the outside world as they continue their fight for survival in silence. While the film is still being talked about, Blunt’s movie has leaked online. Yes, A Quiet Place Part II full movie in HD is leaked by TamilRockers and various Torrent sites for free download. These illegal… Source link

The latest installment of the “Fast and Furious” franchise is widely expected to rev up the domestic box office in ways “Cruella” and “In the Heights” could not. Lukewarm receptions for the latter films puts “F9” in the hot seat — especially with Hollywood desperately searching for evidence that fans are ready to come back to the movies after COVID-linked lockdowns forced them to shut down. “This is the first big movie that we are seeing in this post-pandemic world, which has this huge… Source link

Google has offices in 170 cities and 60 countries around the world, and some of them have already reopened. In Australia, New Zealand, China, Taiwan and Vietnam, Google’s offices have reopened with occupancy allowed to exceed 70%. But the bulk of the 140,000 employees who work for Google and its parent company, Alphabet, are based in the United States, with roughly half of them in the Bay Area. Source link

A recent Twitter trend indicated the office suite wars were over and Google Docs the clear winner. Find out how Jack Wallen came to this conclusion. Image: Google I spend a lot of time on Twitter. According to some, I spend too much of my precious existence on that social networking platform. However, during last week’s travels among the… Source link

Need a new wall? What if it was as quick as blowing up a balloon? How about some privacy? What about a booth? If the office needs a new kitchen, that can be done in minutes too. It’s all part of what may be the office of the future — part pandemic-inspired, part Google trying stuff out. Michelle Kaufman, director of what Google calls “built environment,” gave NBC Bay Area an exclusive tour of several warehouses full of experiments aimed at figuring out the future of the… Source link

The company’s workers around the world can continue working remotely until September, after which they can choose between coming back to their pre-pandemic office, working out of a Google office in a different city or permanently working from anywhere if their role allows it, a Google (GOOGL) spokesperson told CNN Business. The new policy, which will go into effect September 1, was shared with employees in a note from Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Wednesday morning, the spokesperson confirmed…. Source link

Mike Blake/Reuters The head of the U.S. Post Office law enforcement division running a covert social media collection program is expected to brief lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee Wednesday morning about its surveillance work. Yahoo News last week revealed the existence of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service’s Internet Covert Operations Program, known as iCOP, which has been monitoring social media for information about political protests. The work involves having analysts trawl… Source link