The measure will apply in the US state of Washington, where 12 people have been registered dead.
Οcompanies Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Facebook now recommend that their employees in Washington state work from home, if possible, as more than 180 people have been infected with new coronavirus in the country. Of the 12 deaths in the United States from covid-19, 11 were in Washington state and one was in California, which declared a state of emergency.
«We recommend that our employees who can work from home do so by March 25th"Said Curt Del Bini, executive vice president of Microsoft, in a statement on Wednesday. "These measures will guarantee our security and will also make our offices safer for those who need to be there." The company is headquartered in Richmond, a suburb of Seattle.
Η Amazon with more than 50.000 employees in Seattle and Bellevue, it made the same recommendations to its employees "by the end of the month," said a spokesman for the e-commerce giant.
Η Google also called on its employees in Washington state to work from home. In San Francisco the Lyft, a personal transport service platform, asked its employees to return to their homes on Thursday after being informed that one of them had come in contact with a person who had been infected with the new coronavirus.
The official in question has no symptoms, but "We follow the recommendations of the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) and for precautionary reasons we ask our employees in San Francisco to work from home for the rest of the week", The company announced.
On Sunday Twitter (based in San Francisco) also announced that it was "taking the utmost precautions" and therefore "recommends to all its employees around the world to work from home if they can".
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