Google Bars International Travel for Employees, Cancels Flagship Conference
03 Marzo 2020 - 4:16PM
Noticias Dow Jones
By Sebastian Herrera and Rob Copeland
Alphabet Inc.'s Google is banning business-related international
travel for its employees and canceling its flagship conference due
to the coronavirus epidemic, according to a Google spokeswoman.
Google is among a list of companies that include Amazon.com Inc.
and Twitter Inc. to be restricting employee travel for business
reasons.
Google also said Tuesday it would cancel its annual developer's
conference--its flagship event for the year--slated for May and
held adjacent to the company's Mountain View, Calif., headquarters
for roughly 7,000 attendees. A spokeswoman cited concerns around
the coronavirus and the health of attendees.
Google earlier cancelled its internal Engage for Americas
Conference in Las Vegas that the company said typically brings
thousands of employees together from across two continents. Last
week, Google said an employee at its Zurich, Switzerland, office
tested positive for the virus after being in the office "for a
limited time." Google at the time said the office remained
open.
In response to school closures throughout the globe, Google said
Tuesday that it is providing education workers across the world
free access to the Enterprise edition of its video-conferencing
service Hangouts. The Enterprise feature allows for virtual
meetings of up to 250 people per call and the ability to record
meetings and save them to the Google Drive platform.
Write to Sebastian Herrera at sebastian.herrera@wsj.com and Rob
Copeland at rob.copeland@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
March 03, 2020 17:01 ET (22:01 GMT)
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