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Google and Facebook Mandate Vaccines for Employees at U.S. Offices

posted by martyb on Friday July 30 2021, @09:36PM   Printer-friendly

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Google And Facebook Mandate Vaccines For Employees At U.S. Offices:

Google and Facebook will require U.S. employees to be vaccinated against the coronavirus before returning to the company's offices, the tech giants said on Wednesday.

In a blog post, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the vaccine mandate would apply to its U.S. offices in the coming weeks and would be required eventually for other locations.

"Getting vaccinated is one of the most important ways to keep ourselves and our communities healthy in the months ahead," Pichai wrote.

Shortly after Google's announcement, Facebook said it too will require anyone coming to work at its U.S. offices to be vaccinated.

"How we implement this policy will depend on local conditions and regulations. We will have a process for those who cannot be vaccinated for medical or other reasons and will be evaluating our approach in other regions as the situation evolves," Lori Goler, Facebook's vice president of people, wrote in a statement.

The tech giants' vaccine requirements could push other employers to follow suit.

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 30 2021, @09:52PM (8 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 30 2021, @09:52PM (#1161508)

    First they mandate vaccines before you can return to the office, then they mandate sex-change operations for you to stay employed. "You will become one of us", say the pink-hairs.

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  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 30 2021, @10:32PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 30 2021, @10:32PM (#1161515)

    Look I'm saying the vaccine makes you gay or anything I'm just saying that I sucked a few dicks and its no big deal

  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Tork on Friday July 30 2021, @10:40PM (2 children)

    by Tork (3914) Subscriber Badge on Friday July 30 2021, @10:40PM (#1161516)

    First they mandate vaccines before you can return to the office, then they mandate sex-change operations for you to stay employed. "You will become one of us", say the pink-hairs.

    Heh. You can tell how well grounded your arguments are by your photo-realistic strawman.

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    • (Score: 1) by Acabatag on Saturday July 31 2021, @12:33AM (1 child)

      by Acabatag (2885) on Saturday July 31 2021, @12:33AM (#1161560)

      There needs to be a 'Too obvious to be a real troll' mod option.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 02 2021, @11:10PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 02 2021, @11:10PM (#1162492)

        I use "troll" mods for "nobody can genuinely be that stupid".
        Occasionally, I'm incorrect in that evaluation.

  • (Score: 2) by Opportunist on Saturday July 31 2021, @12:36AM

    by Opportunist (5545) on Saturday July 31 2021, @12:36AM (#1161562)

    Yeah, that makes a lot of sense... said nobody ever.

  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 31 2021, @04:15AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 31 2021, @04:15AM (#1161620)

    First they mandate vaccines before you can return to the office, then they mandate sex-change operations for you to stay employed.

    Joke's on them. Get a preemptive sex-change operation then use their mandatory opration to revert back to how you were before.

    • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 31 2021, @04:43AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 31 2021, @04:43AM (#1161628)
      There would be a gain of functionality going m2f (think multiple orgasms), but a serious loss of functionality trying to go back from female to male, because of tissue loss. Just look at the history of Samantha Kane (m2f, then f m, then m2f, then f2something-not-easily-classified. Great example of what happens when someone has more more money than brains and turns out they just had a weird fetish instead of really being trans).

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 31 2021, @07:11AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 31 2021, @07:11AM (#1161650)

        Sorry, but your post deserves to be modded "-1 Informative".