Google is allowing employees back on campus for outdoor-only meetings because remote isn't always enough
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Google is testing socially distanced
The socially-distanced meetings, called "onsite off-site", are held on lawns and other parts of the
It comes as Google prepares for a return to offices in July 2021. During a video interview for Time 100 in September, Google's CEO Sundar Pichai announced the company was making changes to its physical spaces to better support staff in a future he said would involve "hybrid models" of work.
"We firmly believe that in-person, being together, having that sense of community, is super important for whenever you have to solve hard problems, you have to create something new," Pichai said. "So we don't see that changing, so we don't think the future is just 100% remote or something."Google was the first tech giant to announce that employees might have had to keep working from home until summer next year.
Planning the return to offices has been "substantially more complicated" than it had been when moving everyone to remote work, said Alphabet's CFO Ruth Porat at the New York Times DealBook conference last month. Google has a localized approach to returns in place, following the steps it took when it initially advised employees to start working from home.Copyright © 2021. Times Internet Limited. All rights reserved.For reprint rights. Times Syndication Service.
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