1.原文連結：
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-delay-return-office-until-094422886.html
2.原文內容：
Google to delay return to office until September
– and may not ask them to come in permanently at all
Google will delay its staff's return to the office until September, and may
not ask them to come in full time when they do.
The new target for bringing an end to working from home is pushed back from
an initial target of January next year and then July. Google had been one of
the first companies to ask staff to work from home as the coronavirus
outbreak began to arrive in the US.
Even when staff are asked to return to the office, they might never do so
full time. The company is testing the idea of a "flexible workweek" that
could see them come in at least three days a week while working from home the
other days, according to an email from chief executive Sundar Pichai that was
first reported by the New York Times.
Andrew Griffin
Mon, December 14, 2020, 5:50 PM GMT+8
(Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)
(Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)
Google will delay its staff's return to the office until September, and may
not ask them to come in full time when they do.
The new target for bringing an end to working from home is pushed back from
an initial target of January next year and then July. Google had been one of
the first companies to ask staff to work from home as the coronavirus
outbreak began to arrive in the US.
Even when staff are asked to return to the office, they might never do so
full time. The company is testing the idea of a "flexible workweek" that
could see them come in at least three days a week while working from home the
other days, according to an email from chief executive Sundar Pichai that was
first reported by the New York Times.
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The days in the office will be treated as “collaboration days”, while on
the others staff will be allowed to work from home.
“We are testing a hypothesis that a flexible work model will lead to greater
productivity, collaboration, and well-being,” Mr Pichai wrote.
“No company at our scale has ever created a fully hybrid work force model —
though a few are starting to test it — so it will be interesting to try.”
The company will change its workplaces so that the risk of infection is
reduced when staff return, Google said. that could include new office
designs, the option to book collaborative workplaces inside the office and
safer spaces outside.
It could also introduce new technologies to make it easier to work from home,
and to allow people in the office and outside of it to better collaborate.
That includes presentation booths that will allow for professional-looking
broadcasts to be sent to people at home, for instance.
Tech companies – and in particular Google – are likely to serve as a model
for other businesses as they look to transition back to working after the
pandemic. The industry was among the first to send staff home at the
beginning of the outbreak, before government orders mandated it.
Some companies have gone even further than Facebook. Twitter has said that
staff will be able to work from home “forever”, if they want to, even after
its offices are open.
Others, however, have rejected it more firmly. Netflix chief executive Reed
Hastings has said that he had seen no positives from the period of working at
home, despite suggesting that the company’s working schedule would likely
change to allow for one day from home per week.
3.心得/評論：
google 延長 wfh 到 2021 9月
目前科技大廠大部分都是到 6月
根據經驗，這種事其他大廠跟進的機率很高
另外 google 宣稱回歸正常後，很有可能也不會要求員工每天進公司