As Mountain View goes, so goes Cupertino? CNBC says search and advertising giant Google is calling workers back to the office. According to the report:
Google said it will end the voluntary work-from-home period and start having employees in the Bay Area and several other U.S. locations return to the office starting the week of April 4.
The report had John Casey, Google VP of global benefits, saying in an email to employees:
It’s been a long and challenging two years since the vast majority of our people started working from home… But the advances in prevention and treatment, the steady decline in cases that we continue to see, and the improved safety measures we have implemented across our Bay Area sites now mean we can officially begin the transition to the hybrid work week.
The company is anticipating having folks in the office three-days-a-week and working from home for two.
Apple tried to bring people back to the office in some capacity last summer. That was met with resistance. Return plans were shelved indefinitely last December, as the world met the rise of the Omicron variant. One can’t help wondering whether it will follow Google’s suit.
