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Re:Google employee diagnosed with coronavirus by koheripbal on Friday February 28, 2020 @03:52PM (#22446255)
Of course they need to tell them. These employees have families of young children and elderly parents/grandparents.

The office is huge and travel to north Italy is extremely common.

Re:Google employee diagnosed with coronavirus by sailfast on Friday February 28, 2020 @04:04PM (#22446347)
Typically (at least under US law) you cannot legally discuss someone’s health issues without their consent. Not saying it’s a factor here but there is a good reason for these protections to exist that may be slightly less advantageous in the case of an epidemic.