The omicron variant of the coronavirus, cataloged by the World Health Organization (WHO) of “high contagious risk”, it spreads very quickly in the world, which would compromise the return to face-to-face work of many large companies that have been forced to strengthen their arsenal anti-COVID-19 and delay the return to the offices.
Google, for example, has indefinitely postponed the return of its engineers and developers to its facilities, initially scheduled for January.
It should be noted that, at the beginning of December, the search engine giant notified its employees that it will not pay them or that they may even be fired if they do not declare their vaccination status beyond a certain date.
For its part, Meta (Facebook’s parent company) has offered its employees the possibility to choose the workplace that best suits their needs.
While from Amazon, which had suggested returning to face-to-face work at least three days a week since early 2022, it is expected to make further announcements in January.
Apple In turn, it reinstated the mandatory use of masks in all its stores in the United States after making it optional in November at a hundred points of sale. It also temporarily closed stores in Florida and Maryland this week, as well as in the Canadian province of Ontario.
With information from AFP.
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