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 last year, when the first wave of cases of SARS-CoV-2, the new coronavirus that originated in a market in the central city of Wuhan, China, was reported.
Since last year, federal and local health authorities have called on people to stay home to avoid contracting 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 home 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 the real-time video streaming service ?streaming? given the closure of movie theaters around the world.
Companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Square, Microsoft and Uber's corporate activities are encouraging their workers to continue telecommuting from home following the conclusion 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 workers require 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 telecommuting.
As reported by CNBC, the IT giant has planned a strategy to return to offices by December 2020, incorporating its face-to-face activities three times a week by the end of 2021.
However, starting this April 20, some of Google's established Seattle offices will reopen again to return to face-to-face work.
