[HN Gopher] Google recommends all North America employees work f...
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Google recommends all North America employees work from home
Author : apaprocki
Score : 74 points
Date : 2020-03-10 21:36 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| McTossOut wrote:
| Google recommends all engineering projects take no more than 3
| months to complete
| ineedasername wrote:
| My workplace had a ban on WFH. The virus is forcing them to
| reconsider that, at least temporarily.
| realityking wrote:
| Being based in Europe, Germany specifically, it seems like the
| reaction to this situation is much more intense in the US than in
| Europe. I haven't heard of any employers going full WFH or
| universities closing outside of Italy.
|
| And theories why the reaction in the US is or seems to be more
| intense?
| phreeza wrote:
| Reaction in Switzerland has been quite intense. All public
| events above 150 people require cantonal approval, above 1000
| are banned outright. The government is recommending wfh for
| everyone who can, and many employers are following this.
| CalRobert wrote:
| Ireland has seen a pretty strong shift to wfh.
| balazsbela wrote:
| Romania has closed all the schools and banned gatherings with
| more than 1000 participants.
| jakub_g wrote:
| Major universities in Poland decided to close today.
| martin_balsam wrote:
| All universities in Austria are closed
| tigershark wrote:
| I and almost all my friends are WFH in UK.
| scrumbledober wrote:
| Does anyone know the largest employer to have recommended all
| employees work from home?
| eigen wrote:
| MSFT has 144k FTE
| (https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/MSFT/profile?p=MSFT)
|
| GOOG has 118k FTE
| (https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GOOG/profile?p=GOOG)
|
| APPL has 137k FTE
| (https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AAPL/profile?p=AAPL)
|
| AMZN has 798k FTE
| (https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AMZN/profile?p=AMZN) Note:
| this seems incorrect.
|
| INTC has 110k FTE
| (https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/INTC/profile?p=INTC)
|
| HPQ has 56k FTE
| (https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/HPQ/profile?p=HPQ)
| unoti wrote:
| Microsoft has about 150k employees and recommended all work
| from home if they can. Google is around 100k. I don't know
| who's bigger than Microsoft that also did this.
| w0m wrote:
| Microsoft only recommended WFH in SF/Seattle so far, other
| sites waiting for it.
| jacquesm wrote:
| Tough act to follow for Wallmart... The tech industry has a
| huge advantage here.
|
| But there are jobs where you'd have the possibility to do
| this in industries that will take some re-arranging to make
| it work. Legal and financial for instance, call centers (some
| technical issues), most design and creative work.
|
| The impossible ones are anything involving care, production
| and logistics. Even retail could in principle be done but it
| would require a massive shift on the part of the consumer.
| Going shopping is very much ingrained and retooling that
| industry for home delivery is neither fast nor simple when
| done on a massive scale.
| phreeza wrote:
| Many production and logistics workplaces can probably
| implement distancing policies. Care, not so much...
| better_names wrote:
| I guess we wait for IBM?
| TuringNYC wrote:
| It is hard to track IBM because they have so much change, but
| for many years IBM has already been a largely WFH culture. I
| know they recently tried to change that, but not sure how
| much of the culture they changed.
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