With the emergence of coronavirus or COVID-19 from the beginning of this year, as it affected every field of life and caused an extensive damage to human health. It is also badly effecting tech companies and their events around the world.
More than 4.5k died from Coronavirus
According to latest stats as of 12th march, there are approximately 1,26,410 coronavirus cases around the world from which more than 68,000 patients are recovered and 4,500+ patients died according to WorldoMeter stats.
According to World Health Organization (WHO) coronavirus is zonotic which means it can transmit from animals, and from one person to another. It’s outbreak behavior make COVID-19 more dangerous.
Google has announced work from home policy
By keeping this situation in mind, google’s parent company Alphabet has announced work from home policy for their 120,000 full-time employees. These 11 offices mostly located in north America and Canada. They recommend their employees in Washington state to work from home “if your role allows you.”
“Out of an abundance of caution, and for the protection of Alphabet and the broader community, we now recommend that you work from home if your role allows,”
email from Chris Rackow, Google’s vice president of global security, reads in part.
Other tech companies like Amazon, Microsoft and Facebook also encouraging their employees to work from home as corona virus outbreak. But as COVID-19 cases have risen in United States Google is among the first company in continent to do so.
Google established COVID-19 fund
Google is also establishing a COVID-19 fund for their temporary employees who’re effected from corona virus, to give them paid sick leave, if they have symptoms or can’t come into office as they’re quarantined.
Tech gatherings has cancelled due to Coronavirus outbreak
Coronavirus also effected this year’s large tech shows, as COVID-19 spreads in public gathering. Most of these tech gatherings including Google I/O 2020, Mobile World Congress, F8 by Facebook and E3 has cancelled.
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