Covid, Big Tech reopen offices: "But only for the vaccinated"

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July 29, 2021

go back to work, in person, starting from mid-October, but

. In an email sent to Google's more than 130,000 employees around the world, CEO Sundar Pichai said the company aims to bring the majority of its workforce back to offices by October 18, a small delay from the previous planned date. , on September 1st. Facebook also announced that it will require their employees to be vaccinated to return to the office. "We will require anyone who works on one of our US campuses to be vaccinated," the company said in a statement, predicting workplaces at 50 percent of their capacity in the US from September.

too 

it will require the actors and those working side-by-side on American sets to be vaccinated. 

Google's decision also affects

that Google intends to continue using while access to campuses remains limited. "This extension of remote work will give us time to get back to work by providing flexibility to those who need it," the CEO wrote, adding that "getting vaccinated is one of the most important ways to keep ourselves and our communities healthy. health in the months to come ".

The vaccination obligation will initially be imposed on Mountain View, California headquarters and other US offices of Google, then it will be 

in which Google operates. The decision will be tailored to the laws and regulations of each locality, Pichai wrote, with exceptions for medical reasons and for "protected" workers.

Big Tech's decision to request vaccination of office workers comes in the wake of similar initiatives that have affected hundreds of thousands of

as part of strengthened measures to combat the

. President Joe Biden is also considering getting all federal government employees vaccinated.