“It’s been a long and challenging two years since the vast majority of our people started working from home,” wrote John Casey, Google’s vice president of global benefits in an email to employees that was viewed by CNBC. “But the advances in prevention and treatment, the steady decline in cases that we continue to see, and the improved safety measures we have implemented across our Bay Area sites now mean we can officially begin the transition to the hybrid work week.”
Casey said other offices in the U.S. and elsewhere will begin to return based on local conditions.
Google last pushed off its Jan. 10 deadline amid the omicron surge.
Google said it expects most workers to come into the office three days a week and have two days of remote work.
Nearly 14,000 of the company’s 156,500 full-time employees around the world have transferred to a new location or moved to fully remote work, and 85% of total applications have been approved, Casey said. Employees who need more time before returning can also request a work-from-home extension, he added.
Google employees can work from the office more often if they choose, and some roles may need to be onsite more than three days a week “due to the nature of their work,” he wrote.
