Google Is Helping Its Workers Cope With Bad Government
Keeping all employees at home until next summer ensures that parents aren’t punished for school closures.
See you next summer.
Photographer: David Paul Morris/BloombergGoogle’s announcement on Monday that employees can work from home until July 2021 came as a surprise. It seemed as if the data-and-search giant expected the pandemic to rage unchecked for another year.
But it’s actually a very compassionate decision for the company’s working parents, and according to the Wall Street Journal’s reporting, Google CEO Sundar Pichai was swayed by concern for them in the face of so much uncertainty about school reopenings. Because the school year typically runs from late August to mid-June, Google’s decision gives working parents at least one thing they can count on this academic year. That’s one less variable to sweat over.