Google Lets Employees Take An Extra Day Off To Cope With COVID-19

When we are six months into the COVID-19 pandemic, Google announced that it would give its employees another day off to cope with the strain of working in a world with the Coronavirus.

Friday will be a one-time paid holiday applied to interns and full-time employees for collective wellbeing.

According to messages on an internal forum of the company, Google encourages employees to take Friday off and urges managers to support their teams to reprioritize their work commitments.

In case there are urgent businesses that need to be taken care of at the last minute, employees are encouraged to take the next day off instead.

This news came to light as Google’s executives trying to support employees who will likely work from home until mid-2021.

The day off is for fulltime employees only, so contractors, vendors, and temporary workers aren’t qualified for it. According to the document, the decision of whether they can take an extra day off work will be made by their actual employers. For now, the contingent workforce accounts for around half of Google’s workforce.

To make sure the company can respond in time for customers’ needs, some support teams aren’t covered by this new policy; however, according to the internal note, they are subjected to something quite similar.

Google said that this was a one-time offer amid the current pandemic.

When some employees said they would rather take another day off, Google’s response is no, as it wants the teams to take this time off together.

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