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Google reportedly plans to test 'flexible work week' when it's safe to reopen offices. Employees will spend at least three days a week on campus, which Google CEO called "collaboration days", and work from home the remaining days. Teams will be able to reserve 'collaboration spaces' for up to a dozen people, while larger gatherings will take place outdoors.

Vikrant Shekhawat : Dec 14, 2020, 04:07 PM
New York: Alphabet Inc’s Google will allow its employees to work from home until September next year, extending the return to the office by a few months, the New York Times reported on Monday.

The company was also testing the idea of a "flexible workweek" once it is safe to return to the office, Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai told the company's staff in an email on Sunday, according to the report here.

As part of the plan, Google’s employees would be expected to work at least three days a week in the office while working from home the other days, the newspaper report said.

“We are testing a hypothesis that a flexible work model will lead to greater productivity, collaboration, and well-being,” Pichai wrote in the email.

Google was one of the first companies to ask its employees to work from home due to the pandemic. It has previously delayed the timing by when the employees should return to the office from January next year to July.