Google, a major US IT company, has announced that it will require all employees to be vaccinated for the full reopening of its office this fall following the spread of the mutated coronavirus.
This was revealed in an email sent to employees by Google CEO Pichai.
Google initially planned to fully reopen its offices in the United States on September 1, but said that the spread of the variant virus Delta strain has raised concerns among employees about coming to work. , Will be postponed to mid-October.
On that basis, he said that all employees must have been vaccinated before resuming commuting, and announced a policy to require vaccination except for those with special circumstances such as medical reasons.
The company plans to extend the mandatory requirements to employees working outside the United States.
Regarding mandatory vaccination, the states of California and Los Angeles, where Google's headquarters are located, also require all employees to submit or fail to submit a vaccination certificate at least once a week. There is a lot of interest in whether these movements will spread among companies in the future.