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Re:Google employee diagnosed with coronavirus by ocdtrekkie on Friday February 28, 2020 @04:27PM (#22446528)
The weird thing here is I imagine the number of people who can't do their job effectively from home at a Google office is super low. Asking people to stay home likely wouldn't even significantly impact business.
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Re:Google employee diagnosed with coronavirus by lastres0rt on Friday February 28, 2020 @04:32PM (#22446590)
The Google employees that do their work over VPN can probably work from home.

Foodservice, janitors, and security, OTOH...

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Re:Google employee diagnosed with coronavirus by ocdtrekkie on Friday February 28, 2020 @04:35PM (#22446609)
True, though if you close the office and let people work from home who can do their work from home, you also don't actually need the work from food service, janitors, security, etc. You just lock the doors and tell them to stay home. (I'd say in this case Google should still ensure those people get paid, though I guess that's not a guarantee considering how they treat TVCs.)
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Re:Google employee diagnosed with coronavirus by midev on Friday February 28, 2020 @05:09PM (#22446871)
Google doesn't even use VPN's. It's wonderful: https://thenewstack.io/beyondcorp-google-ditched-virtual-pri...
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Re:Google employee diagnosed with coronavirus by mnm1 on Friday February 28, 2020 @06:43PM (#22447479)
> Foodservice, janitors, and security, OTOH...

All completely unnecessary jobs when no one is in the office.

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