Google to Give Its Employees in India Rs 75,000 Each to Arrange for Necessary Office Equipment

Sundar Pichai, CEO, Alphabet and Google, announced that the American technology giant would be giving its employees across the world a sum a 1000 dollars or its equivalent in their country to support them while they work-from-home. “Because we still expect that most Googlers will be largely working from home for the rest of this year, we’ll be giving each Googler an allowance of $1,000 USD, or the equivalent value in your country, to expense necessary equipment and office furniture,” said Pichai through a blog post.

The company is also looking at restarting its offices with a minimum workforce from July 2020 onwards. “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),” added the Google CEO in his blog.

The company also reiterated that they would take all necessary precautions and the mandated standard operating procedures (SOPs) of social distancing to ensure the safety of its employees who wish to work from the office. Furthermore, in the month of September, the company will further scale the rotation program, building over time to 30 percent capacity.

While there are a limited number of Google employees who may need to work from office this calendar year, everyone else, returning to the office will be voluntary through the end of the year. Those who will need to report to office will be informed about the same through their managers. Google has encouraged the remaining employees to work from home.