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I enjoy working from home. If reopening offices means going back to the office and having to sit in a mask for eight hours a day, no thank you.

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This is why we need unions. Do employees get to sue Alphabet if they get covid from the office?

They would have to prove negligence of some sort, and I guarantee Google has enough lawyers on payroll to make that absolutely impossible without the most egregious evidence (like multiple videos of your manager walking up to you and saying "look at this nice bottle of pure COVID-19... be a real shame if I drop... OOPS I SPILLED IT ON YOU! ahhhh!!").

Remember, this is a company that has had senior executives have extremely real and credible sexual misconduct allegations made against them only to see them sent off with million dollar golden parachutes: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/technology/google-sexual-...

You will not win a legal battle against Google, period.

isn't it easier just to move jobs? having google on your resume means you can get hired anywhere.

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