{"id":4719,"date":"2021-05-11T15:41:05","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T19:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=4719"},"modified":"2021-05-11T15:42:41","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T19:42:41","slug":"google-implements-change-for-more-workplace-flexibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/google-implements-change-for-more-workplace-flexibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Implements Change For More Workplace Flexibility"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Google CEO Sundar Pichai recently announced a series of changes to give the tech giant&#8217;s employees more workplace flexibility as the company gets ready for a post-pandemic return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the new development, Google will allow its employees a hybrid working week. While the hybrid working week would allow workers to work three days at the office and two days from home, Google will allow some workers to request a change of office location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Google is also offering its employees four weeks a year to work from anywhere they want. Pichai says this will give workers more opportunities during the holidays and vacations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In his memo to employees, Pichai announced that 60% of workers have returned to places where offices have opened for physical labor, and he sees the full scope of Google&#8217;s hybrid workweek as measured by an individual&#8217;s work, since some workers may need to be on-site and in the office more than three days a week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He added that employees will continue to work remotely until September, while the company slowly reopens, with the option to apply for the permanent hybrid model in June.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/05\/06\/994123311\/google-adapts-to-long-term-telework-offers-employees-hybrid-work-week\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in NPR.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google CEO Sundar Pichai recently announced a series of changes to give the tech giant&#8217;s employees more workplace flexibility as the company gets ready for a post-pandemic return. With the new development, Google will allow its employees a hybrid working week. While the hybrid working week would allow workers to work three days at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-4719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-future-of-work","tag-google"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4719"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5220,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4719\/revisions\/5220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}