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  • Updated: March 08, 2020

Coronavirus: Google Urges Workers Not To Panic

Coronavirus: Google Urges Workers Not To Panic

 

Online search engine, Google, has advised its workers not to panic over the coronavirus epidemic. 

CEO, Pichai Sundararajan, in a memo to workers, reminded them that “millions of people and companies around the world are relying on us.”

Earlier this week, google alongside Microsoft cancelled its annual developers' conference, which was set to draw more than 7,000 attendees to its Mountain View, Calif., headquarters in mid-May after a colleague in Zurich tested positive to the virus.

“We know this is a very unsettling time for everyone,” Sundar Pichai wrote in the memo

“You’ve heard me talk about helpfulness in the context of moments big and small,” Pichai wrote. “This is one of those big moments.”

Google added that all 120,000 employees worldwide should “be prepared to work from home unexpectedly,” as well as to take their laptops home each night.

Addressing the workers, Financial chief Ruth Porat said any employee that feel sick at all, should stay at home  “it’s not okay to ‘tough it out,’” according to CNBC.

Pichai concluded that Google is running a 24-hour command center to monitor the virus which means that employees are to continue working hard through a difficult time.

The coronavirus has now infected more than 100,000 people around the world and recently appeared in the San Francisco Bay Area

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