Covid-19: Uber tells employees to work from home till mid-September
Ride-hailing major Uber has extended
work-from-home policy for its employees till September 13, as California
continues to show a dramatic decline in the number of Covid-19 cases.
Uber is
also encouraging employees to get vaccinated when it's possible to do so,
reports TechCrunch.
"In considering the extension, we took into account the
latest scientific data and experts' views; the fact that different countries
are at different stages of recovery; and the start of the school year," Uber Chief People
Officer Nikki Krishnamurthy said in an email.
In August, Uber told employees they should expect to work from home through
June 2021.
"We're taking a number of aspects into consideration, such as
how being physically together benefits or reduces productivity, collaboration,
and engagement," Krishnamurthy said.
Google has also extended work from home till
September 2021 and when the offices reopen, employees may rejoin the workplace
for three days a week and work from home on
rest of the days.
Google had earlier set January 2021 as a tentative timeline for
its workers to return to offices.
In May, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg laid out a detailed
remote-working plan to make half of his 50,000-strong workforce work from home
by 2030.
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