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Re:Google recommends all North America employees work from home by skybrian on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @02:07AM (#22543462)
That depends what you mean by "regular."

When I was there as a software engineer, I worked from home one day a week.

But at least at a few years ago, you couldn't work from home full-time forever. I knew folks in the Atlanta office, and after it closed they could work from home for a long while (many weeks), but needed to eventually find a position at another office or leave the company.

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Re:Google recommends all North America employees work from home by CydeWeys on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @09:35AM (#22545674)
It comes down to how lenient your manager is, but the official policy was you're only allowed to work from home in exceptional circumstances (like you have someone coming over to work on your house), and they look askance at doing it more than a couple times per month.

Ironically, the Atlanta office is now expanding again. Turns out that closing it was a big mistake re: making diversity goals. I could've told them that ...

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