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Google will keep 200,000 workers home through next summer Google is the first major tech company to announce office closures until mid-2021. Enlarge / Google CEO Sundar Pichai testifies before the House Judiciary Committee in 2018. Xinhua/Liu Jie via Getty Images 135 with 66 posters participating, including story author Google will keep "nearly all" of its workforce—around 200,000 employees and contractors—working from home for another year, The Wall Street Journal has reported. Google CEO Sundar Pichai reportedl

Charter engineer quits over “reckless” rules against work-from-home Charter workers apparently face choice in pandemic: work in the office or resign. Enlarge / Charter CEO Tom Rutledge speaks during the New York Times DealBook conference in New York on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016. Getty Images | Bloomberg 182 with 117 posters participating A Charter Communications engineer called the company's rules against working from home during the coronavirus pandemic "pointlessly reckless" and "socially irresponsible" before su

Twitter has announced that employees are encouraged to work from home in an effort to stop the spread of a novel coronavirus that has infected at least 105 people in 15 states and killed six people in the U.S. The San Francisco-based social media company is believed to be the first major U.S. firm to announce a work-from-home policy as companies around the world enact new plans to fight COVID-19. Shelves where disinfectant wipes are usually displayed at a Target store on March 2, 2020 in Novato, California in the Bay Area. “Beginning today, we are strongly encouraging all employ