Google in August had said it would expect workers to come in
about three days a week from January 10 at the earliest, ending its voluntary
work-from-home policy.
On Thursday, Google executives told employees that the
company would put off the deadline beyond that date. Insider first reported the
news.
Google said the update was in line with its earlier guidance
that a return to workplaces would begin no earlier than January 10 and depend
on local conditions.
Nearly 40 percent of US employees have come into an office
in recent weeks, Google said, with higher percentages in other parts of the
world.
But CNBC reported last week that hundreds of employees have
protested the company's vaccination mandate for those working on US government
contracts.
Google was one of the first companies to ask its employees
to work from home during the pandemic. It has about 85 offices across nearly 60
countries.
Europe has so far recorded 79 cases of the Omicron variant,
first detected in southern Africa last month, the European Union's public
health agency said earlier on Thursday.
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