Google has warned its employees that the coronavirus epidemic makes traditional jokes exchanged on April 1 unacceptable. The company will "pause this tradition this year out of respect for all those who are fighting against the Covid-19 pandemic," said an internal email read by Business Insider and relayed by The Verge on Friday.
"Our primary goal at the moment is to help people, so let's keep our jokes for April of next year, which will undoubtedly be much happier than this one," explains the message written by the director of the marketing from Lorraine Lorraine Twohill.
"April 1 is a tradition at Google"
The manager wants to ensure that no joke will come from the employees of the company. "We have already stopped all the April 1 jokes planned by the company but we are aware that there may be smaller projects at the scale of a team of which we are not aware, writes Lorraine Twohill. Thank you for identifying these steps and ensuring that your teams end all their joke projects, whether internally or externally, ”she said in the document.
The efforts made by Google and its employees to put April Fools online are as popular as expected each year. "In normal circumstances, April 1 is a tradition at Google and an opportunity to celebrate what makes us a non-conformist company," said the author of the email. In addition to the fact that the coronavirus does not make the atmosphere conducive to jokes, Google anticipates the risks of dissemination of "fake news" that could run the publication of fanciful information, analyzes also The Verge .
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