Cristian Carlos. Peninsula 360 Press [P360P].
Cases of COVID-19 are declining for the first time since the World Health Organization declared a pandemic on March 11 of last year, when the first wave of cases of SARS-CoV-2, the new coronavirus that originated in a market in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, China, was reported.
Since last year, federal and local health officials have been calling for people to stay home to avoid catching or transmitting the coronavirus.
Suddenly, people began to move their daily lives to the comfort of their homes, taking online courses and classes, watching movies without leaving the house and minimizing meetings with people outside the home; additionally, companies did what we were always told could not be done: work remotely.
In the case of technology companies that offer digital services, like most of Silicon Valley, they integrated, without much inconvenience, their work life to their home life in a matter of weeks regardless of the complexity of their activities.
For example, in the case of Pixar Animation Studios, the now Oscar-nominated animated film had to be completed, Soul and debuting in the service of video streaming in real time -streaming- given the closure of cinema complexes around the world.
Companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Square, Microsoft and Uber's corporate activities are encouraging their workers to continue telecommuting from home after the end of security measures imposed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Insider reported.
Instead, Google's offices are threatening to open and require workers to relocate as soon as possible to their facilities starting this month and, if any worker requires it, they will be able to work only 14 days remotely with advance notice.
Google anticipates that all staff will be working from headquarters no later than September 1 of this year, with the limitation of appealing the decision "in specific cases" for an additional 12 months of teleworking.
As reported by CNBC, the computer giant planned a strategy of returning to the office from December 2020 and incorporating its face-to-face activities by the end of 2021 three times a week.
However, starting this April 20, some of Google's established Seattle offices will reopen again to return to face-to-face work.
