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Re:Google to keep employees home until summer 2021 by pb7 on Monday July 27, 2020 @04:11PM (#23968906)
>I appreciate that companies are offering flexibility, but it would definitely be better if there was more thinking being done about the long-term restructuring of work.

There is. Your partner has information on that internally. It's a big decision for a company of 120,000+ full time employees across 150 countries so it will take time to figure out a permanent plan going forward.

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Re:Google to keep employees home until summer 2021 by matthewmacleod on Monday July 27, 2020 @04:20PM (#23968988)
That’s a fair point. I was a little annoyed to hear a kind of vague medium-term plan today rather than something more firm or adventurous, but it’s fair to say that it’s understandable given the scope of the change.
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Re:Google to keep employees home until summer 2021 by pb7 on Monday July 27, 2020 @04:23PM (#23969019)
Very fair but I think even announcing a 1 year plan is incredibly fair given that many similar companies (e.g. Apple) are still WFH on an ongoing basis, ready to come back as soon as the COVID rates hit a certain threshold. Now that would suck.
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