Google to Reimburse its Employees up to $1,000 for Buying Work-from-home Equipment

The coronavirus pandemic has caused people many to lose their jobs and many others to start working from home.

One company trying to help with the costs of getting a work station situated at home is tech giant Google.

The company said that it would reimburse up to $1,000 for employees to buy work-from-home gear according to a note to employees this week from CEO Sundar Pichai.

Employees who don’t necessarily have to work from home won’t be asked to come in.

Pichai also detailed how the company will slowly reopen its offices, starting by rotating employees through offices at 10% capacity on July 6th and working up to around 30% capacity in September.

“This will give Googlers who need to come back to the office — or, capacity permitting, who want to come back — the opportunity to return on a limited, rotating basis (think: one day every couple of weeks, so roughly 10 percent building occupancy),” Pichai wrote in the email, which was published on a Google blog.

Pichai added, “We’ll have rigorous health and safety measures in place to ensure social distancing and sanitization guidelines are followed, so the office will look and feel different than when you left.”

Managers will tell employees if they must go back by June 10, and for all other employees, coming back will be voluntary, the CEO added.

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