Tag: Google

Mandating vaccination for employees earlier, Google will now ask all of its US-based employees, who are entering offices to get a weekly COVID-19 test....

Google has warned employees that they’ll lose pay and eventually be fired from their jobs if they fail to get vaccinated by January 18,...

Google will provide a one-time cash bonus of $1,600 or equivalent value, to the extended workforce and interns. The bonus is expected to be...

In view of the growing threat around the new COVID-19 variant, Omicron, many major international conglomerates and organisations are rethinking their plans to reopen...

About 250 contractual workers working for Google’s data centre raised their voices against a bonus cut. These temps were promised a weekly bonus of...

Google aims to attract its New York-based personnel with a revamped office space, which cost $2.1 billion to redo. This redefined workspace of the...

A programme manager at Apple, who is also a leader of the #AppleToo movement, was fired by the Company for what Apple called ‘non-compliance’. Janneke...

Amazon and Google have signed a deal with the Israeli government, including the military, offering them cloud services solutions as part of Project Nimbus,...

Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, believes that even though vaccination remains the best protection for the population against COVID-19, it should be voluntary and...

Google is making headlines for its weak commitment to inclusivity at the workplace. One of its Black employees has claimed that he was stopped...

In a bid to enhance employee-employee relations in a hybrid work setting, Google has announced advanced features in Google Workspace. These include introduction of...

Amidst fear of the rapid spread of the Delta variant of COVID-19, Google has revealed that it does not expect most of its staff...

Facebook has no plans to get its employees to return to office before January 2022. Earlier, in June, the tech company had said it...

Rob Enslin, president - cloud sales, Google, has announced the launch of Google Cloud’s Autism Career Programme, which is designed to hire and support...

With Googlers set to return to office in September, the Company plans to follow a new salary structure. According to the new model, which...

Google fired 36 employees last year, 26 the year before last and 18 in 2018, for defying privacy norms and misusing user data. The...

Googlers will have to get themselves inoculated before returning to office. Google’s plan to bring its employees back to office in September has been...

Testbook.com, the Indian government job preparation ed-tech platform, will now offer a 360-degree ‘’Skilled Campus Programme’ for students, across over 50 universities and colleges,...

Google has claimed that it has made significant improvement in terms of hiring people from different colours. Now the Company has gained confidence and...

Google has launched a platform that will allow its employees to calculate how much their pay or earnings will be if they decide to...

Kamau Bobb, global head of diversity strategy and research, Google, has been asked to step down after a 13-year old blog post of his...

Google is now facing a gender-pay lawsuit which was given class-action status by a San Francisco state judge. That means, the four main petitioners...

Now that Android 12 is available on certain phones in a beta version, Google has struck upon a way to clear it of all...

A new area is opening up for women to seek employment in — gaming. For those who think women gamers are few and far...

Nanjappa Palekanda, has joined Netflix as vice president - talent experience and operations. He has moved from Uber, where he was serving as senior...

Google employees may soon enter their offices to find ‘team pods’ instead of the usual desks and meeting rooms. Since the future of work...

Amidst the second wave of the pandemic that has taken the country by surprise, the top five metros —Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai—...

Express Stores, which recently raised seed funding of Rs 8 Crores, led by venture capital firm Venture Highway - founded by Neeraj Arora ex-Whatsapp,...

An open letter from the disappointed employees of Alphabet, with over 1,300 signatures, has been sent to Sundar Pichai, CEO, Google, seeking protection against...

Google has commenced its certification programme that will train candidates for entry-level jobs in data analytics, project management, user experience (UX) design and so...

Google will update its productivity software, Workspace, so that frontline employees —retail and healthcare — and remote workers can be served better, given that...

TalentSprint, educational technology platform and NSE group company, has announced that the third cohort of the pioneering Women Engineers Programme, or WE, with support...

Google has fired its scientist, Margaret Mitchell for violating the Company’s code of conduct and security policies. The Company has alleged that she moved...

Engineering director, David Baker, has worked for Google for 16 years, while Vinesh Kannan, was a software engineer. Both have chosen not to work...

A compliance audit a few years ago had brought to light that Google had been underpaying its women employees and was discriminating against Asians...

Close on the heels of the formation of the Alphabet Workers Union, Google is reportedly asking employees to watch out for “disruptive” language in...

Over 200 employees of Google in the US and its parent company, Alphabet, have come together to form a union, which will be open...

Google may end up spending over four million dollars a week on free COVID tests for its 90,000-strong workforce in the US, if all...

Google has announced that its employees will work remotely till September 2021. Clearly, the Company has realised that the pandemic is in no hurry...

Over 1,400 members of Google’s workforce have come together to protest the firing of Timnit Gebru, technical co-lead at the technology company’s ethical artificial...

National Labour Relations Board (NLRB) is gearing to file a complaint against Google for violating US labour laws. The multinational tech company has been...

Taking forward its commitment to making the workplace more friendly and to uphold its D&I agenda, Google will set up a Diversity, Equity and...

After noticing that its employees have been sharing their opinions generously on its internal message boards — Dory and Memegen — while working from...

As employee burnout has become more prevalent during the pandemic, Google’s idea of declaring September 4 as a one-time paid holiday for its employees...

More than 1600 Google employees have, in a signed letter to the CEO, Sundar Pichai, asked the Company to end the sale of its...

Amidst protests against racial injustice, many companies are trying to bring out a meaningful change in their policies to protect Black employees, who have...

Brian Hall, who worked with Amazon’s cloud business, Amazon Web Service (AWS), has been sued by his former employer for joining competitor, Google Cloud. Amazon...

Google employees who are working from home have been directed to join offices on July 6, considering the external conditions. Sundar Pichai, CEO, Google,...

Twitter has also joined the likes of Google and Facebook, which are amongst the companies that have extended their work-from-home policies till 2021. The...

Google employees, who are working remotely, have been directed to follow the same system of work until June 1, 2020, as there is no mention...