Google has been asking employees to return to the office since April this year, and has required them to work in the office at least three days a week since August. However, with the recent notification of more and more confirmed infections among internal employees from management, many employees haveStart questioningCompanies are requiring a return to office work.
According to statistics from the Los Angeles City Government, among the recent confirmed cases of infection, Google has the highest proportion of confirmed cases among all companies and banks. Among them, 145 people were confirmed in the Venice office on the waterfront in the west side of Los Angeles, and 135 people were confirmed in another office.
However, a Google spokesperson responded that this data only covers the number of infections in the past few months, and there are no new cases at present. It also shows that there has been no large-scale infection within the campus.
Starting in August of this year, Google required employees to be in the office at least three days a week, with the flexibility to work from home or remotely the other two days. While Google stated that it would allow employees to request extended periods of remote or remote work, and even request to relocate to a different city, many employees complained about the low likelihood of approval, and the potential loss of commuting benefits and other benefits if they were to relocate to a different city.
At the end of last year, Google required its internal employees to comply with the new coronavirus vaccination regulations, otherwise they would face pay suspension or dismissal. However, in order to persuade more employees to return to work in the office, the company subsequently adjusted the relevant regulations to respect employees' decisions not to receive the vaccine due to personal reasons. However, this also led to the relaxation of the original requirements for wearing masks and maintaining social distance, resulting in an increase in the number of infections in the office. Therefore, Google also resumed the requirement that employees entering the office must complete the vaccination.
However, the current mandatory requirement for vaccination before returning to the office or participating in the company's physical activities is apparently opposed by another group of employees, who believe that the company should respect employees' personal wishes and privacy. They also believe that the cause of infection has no direct connection with whether or not the vaccine is received. After all, many people are still infected with mutant viruses after completing the vaccination. Therefore, they call on the company to cancel the requirement for vaccination before returning to the office. This situation seems to have put Google in a dilemma.
