Google gives workers 75k each for work from home

San Francisco: Google has set July 6 the date for its employees to return to office in a gradual, phased manner and has announced to give $1,000 (around Rs 75,000) to each of its workers globally for expenses on necessary equipment and office furniture as they work from home.

Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai said that the company will restart opening more buildings in more cities from July 6. "This will give Googlers who need to come back to the office or, capacity permitting, who want to come back the opportunity to return on a limited, rotating basis (think: one day every couple of weeks, so roughly 10 per cent building occupancy)," Pichai said in a statement late Tuesday.

According to him, if condition allows, Google will gain 30 per cent office capacity by September by further scaling the rotation programme. "Because we still expect that most Googlers will be largely working from home for the rest of this year, we'll be giving each Googler an allowance of $1,000, or the equivalent value in your country, to expense necessary equipment and office furniture," Pichai announced. According to Pichai, there are a limited number of Googlers whose roles are needed back in office this calendar year.