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How a Google billionaire helped pay for Biden’s science office

More than a dozen officials in the 140-person White House office have been associates of Schmidt’s, including some current and former Schmidt employees, according to interviews with current and former staff members and internal emails obtained by POLITICO. Schmidt maintained a close relationship with the president’s former science adviser, Eric Lander, and other Biden appointees. And his charity arm, Schmidt Futures, indirectly paid the salaries of two science-office employees,… Source link

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Goldman Sachs’ CEO demanded all employees return full-time to the office. Only half showed up

Fighting a strong trend toward hybrid work, Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon has repeatedly insisted that employees return to the office full-time, leaving no doubt that he views remote work as a temporary aberration. But on the day the investment banking giant reopened its U.S. offices in February, after shutting down during the Omicron wave, just 50%, or about 5,000 of the building’s 10,000 workers, returned to its New York headquarters, despite receiving more than two weeks’ notice. In… Source link

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Google will use office space in Poland to support Ukrainian refugees

People fleeing the Russian invasion of Ukraine wait to board a bus during snowfall after crossing the border from Ukraine to Poland at the border checkpoint in Medyka, Poland, March 7, 2022. Fabrizio Bensch | Reuters Google will use office space and offer other resources in Poland to Ukrainian refugees, the company announced Monday. The company will use its Startups Campus in Warsaw as a space for local non-governmental organizations to provide legal and psychological services to refugees,… Source link

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Even Google agrees there’s no going back to the old office life

The great enforced global experiment in working from home is coming to an end, as vaccines, the Omicron variant and new therapeutic drugs bring the COVID-19 crisis under control. But a voluntary experiment has begun, as organisations navigate the new landscape of hybrid work, combining the best elements of remote work with time in the office. Yes, there is some push for a “return to normal” and getting workers back into offices. But ideas such as food vouchers and parking… Source link

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Google’s New Manhattan Groundscraper Bets on the Future of the Office

The average New Yorker couldn’t give you directions to St. John’s Terminal, or tell you what it looks like. Originally three stories tall and three blocks long, it runs north to south along West Street, in lower Manhattan. Built in 1934 by the New York Central Railroad, it was designed to hold two hundred and twenty-seven fully laden freight cars, which arrived and departed thirty feet above the ground, at the end point of the elevated tracks that would eventually become known as the… Source link

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The Future Of Work For Google Is Hybrid, As The Company Tells Its Workers To Return To The Office By April 4

Google CEO Sundar Pichai (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) ASSOCIATED PRESS How can you say we are sort of out of the pandemic without saying we’re out of the pandemic? During the Super Bowl, celebrities were out in force, flaunting that they weren’t wearing masks. Similarly, President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address showed that no one was wearing a facial covering. Another major sign is that Google is telling its San Francisco Bay Area workers to return to the… Source link

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U.Va. to permit current students to retain Google accounts or transition to Office 365 – The Cavalier Daily

The University announced that current students will not be required to switch from Google accounts to Office 365 in the spring in an email sent ​​Wednesday by Dana German, associate vice president and deputy chief information officer.  “These changes incorporate your feedback while still making meaningful progress toward U.Va.’s goal of a shared communication and collaboration platform for all members of our university community,”… Source link

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With 1 Sentence, Google’s CEO Just Shared the Best Plan Yet for Returning to the Office

Over the past six months, one of the more interesting tensions to play out has been watching companies of all sizes try to figure out the best way to bring their employees back to the office. On the one hand, the pandemic has taught many of us that there are a lot of jobs that simply don’t require being in an office. At the same time, there are real benefits to having everyone together–even if not all the time.  For example, teams develop relationships differently when they’re together in… Source link

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Google won’t fire or suspend unvaccinated employees, but they need approval to visit the office

Google is no longer requiring its US-based workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19, according to CNBC. “We’re not enforcing vaccination requirements as a condition of employment for US office workers at this time,” Google spokesperson Lora Lee Erickson said in a statement to The Verge after we first published this article. “We’re continuing to implement our vaccination policy requiring COVID-19 vaccinations or approved accommodations for any individuals accessing our sites,… Source link

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