Despite pressure from govt, US tech giants in no rush to open office

Google and Facebook told employees that many workers who can do their jobs remotely should plan to do so until 2021

Despite pressure from the government to begin to reopen society to revive a moribund economy, tech giants in the United States — Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon and Twitter -- seem to be in no hurry to bring their employees back to offices, rather telling most staff to work from home at least until next year.

It is clear that tech giants are not looking to politicians to set timetables to reopen their offices and bring the staff back whom they had sent to work from home as the coronavirus started to spread near their West Coast headquarters in early March, The