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　　at the request of the company, many employees of Google in the United States have returned to the office to work, but recently, employees have often received information from management about employees infected with the new crown virus. , which led employees to question the company's policy of requiring a return to the office.

　　cause employee dissatisfaction

　　A number of Google employees who did not want to be named told the press that since Google forced employees to return to the office, their emails have often received updates about employees infected with the new crown. Disappointed, the employees sent out some internet heatmaps to mock it.

　　Starting in August, Google required most employees to work in the office at least three days a week. However, this policy has caused dissatisfaction among some employees, because before this, employees have been working from home, but they have shown extremely high efficiency. Google even Achieved the highest quarterly revenue growth in the past 15 years while working from home.

　　For full-time employees, Google offers the option to work from home permanently, but the numbers so far are unclear on how many people have been approved for the benefit.

　　In the latest round of Covid-19 infections, Google was the worst hit of any company, according to the City of Los Angeles. According to reports, Google has an office area in "Silicon Beach" in Venice, California, where 145 employees have been infected with the new crown pneumonia, while in the office area in Prevista, California, 135 employees have been infected.

　　A Google spokeswoman said there had been no large-scale spread of the novel coronavirus in the Google office. The number of infections in the Venice and Prevista offices is basically all of Google's infections over the past few months, and there are currently no new infections.

　　At Memegen, Google's internal employee photo-sharing site, employees began sending out heatmaps describing the employee infection statistics they received. One of the posts, which received 2,840 likes, showed an email inbox with a letter from a boss in Google's San Francisco department with the subject line "We're excited about your return to the office!" The subject line of the next email from the boss was "Latest Covid-19 Infection Notice."

　　In another heatmap, a happy "Pokemon" (Pokemon, a character from the popular game) is playing in Google's California Bay Area office, while another Pokemon has received 29 employee infections. , with a sad face.

　　There's also a heatmap showing Star Wars character Rey, with the caption: "I didn't know there were so many 'Latest Covid-19 Announcements' in the entire galaxy!".

　　Some employees said the number of new crown infections at Google's Mountain View headquarters and San Francisco office area began to rise sharply after Google held a celebration of returning to the office. It is reported that the celebration gathered thousands of Google employees and invited Grammy Award-winning American singer Lizzo to perform.

　　The above-mentioned Google spokesperson said that Google complies with California and local laws and regulations in terms of the definition of infection of new coronary pneumonia, and will send employees notification emails of possible exposure after the infection occurs.

　　Vaccine does not prevent infection

　　At the end of last year, Google notified all employees that they must abide by the new crown vaccine policy, or they will be suspended or fired. But in February, before inviting employees back to the office, Google loosened its policy of making vaccinations mandatory for all employees, as well as policies around coronavirus testing, social distancing and wearing masks.

　　However, Google still requires employees to be vaccinated if they want to enter the office.

　　Now, some Google employees are asking the company to drop the vaccine requirement, because in some office areas, although employees have been vaccinated as required, new coronary pneumonia infections still occur.

　　Employees who oppose the vaccine say that although the new crown vaccine provides some protection, it is not effective against the new variant "BA.5" that is currently widely circulating.

　　However, according to reports, including the BA.5 variant, the new crown vaccine commonly injected in the United States can prevent severe disease or death, but cannot prevent infection or mild symptoms.

　　Drop mandatory vaccine policy

　　The anonymous group of employees described above described themselves as "Googlers who oppose mandatory vaccinations." The group said that at present, employees who have not been vaccinated, or employees who refuse to disclose whether they have been vaccinated (private information), are not allowed to enter Google's offices or participate in other offline activities, and they are disappointed by this policy.

　　The group said some Google employees had never met their colleagues after March 2020, and others were never told about the mandatory vaccination policy during the job application process.

　　The above-mentioned groups said that, including Omicron and other variants, they have seen multiple rounds of new coronary pneumonia infections in the Google office area, which has little to do with vaccination. For example, some Google colleagues who have been fully vaccinated or given booster shots continue to take sick leave because of the new crown infection. Some of Google's colleagues panicked and others took it in stride.

　　According to reports, including Boeing, Intel and United Airlines, some large companies in the United States that once required employees to have mandatory vaccination policies have withdrawn their policies, mainly because a federal court rejected the federal government’s practice of requiring mandatory vaccination of employees of external contractors. The aforementioned group of Google employees said they hoped Google's leadership would move away from mandatory vaccines as well.

　　Membership in this group of Google employees remains largely anonymous. The group claims to have several hundred members, who have worked at Google for nearly a decade, in engineering, project management, user experience design, education, sales, marketing, finance, and more. Some members have been fully vaccinated, but believe that Google's mandatory policy violates personal privacy and does not take into account the health risk factors of employees.

　　The group said it is now speaking out for colleagues who are unable to return to the office because they have not been vaccinated, opting to appeal to colleagues as the group's appeal to Google's leadership was ignored. I hope that Google colleagues can take into account the Googlers who cannot participate because of the mandatory vaccine when organizing offline activities.