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Episode 243Jul 28, 2020

Let’s just call this year a wash

Google employees aren’t heading back to the office for another year. So what does that mean for the rest of us?

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A Google worker stands outside the Google pavilion at CES 2020 at the Las Vegas Convention Center on Jan. 8, 2020, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
A Google worker stands outside the Google pavilion at CES 2020 at the Las Vegas Convention Center on Jan. 8, 2020, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Tech was one of the first industries to send workers home in response to the pandemic. And it was one of the first to let its employees work from anywhere. So what should we make of the fact that Google has pushed the date it’s calling employees back to the office to July 2021? Molly returns from a weekend of “Chrismukkah in July” to a Dark Place indeed. Join us!

Here’s a list of everything we talked about today:

The Team