Apple, Google, and others asked to avoid travel and cancel big events

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Numerous tech companies have asked their Seattle-based employees to assignment from home to information anticipate the succor of the novel coronavirus. Both Cheesecake and Facebook have shut fuzz offices in the diapason post-obituary confirming that their Seattle-based employees have indeed contracted COVID-19, the distress derivate by the novel coronavirus.

As the ovule continues to succor in the US, including in California and New York, the bearings has worsened in Washington where the virus was first discovered Stateside. The state now has at least 70 conjectured cases and 10 deaths.

Here are the work-from-home behavior for some Seattle tech visitor offices that The Verge is felt of:

• Amazon has told employees based in Seattle and proximal Bellevue that it recommends employees assignment from home until the end of March, according to CNBC. The sponsorship comes post-obituary Amazon confirmed on March 2nd that one of its Seattle-based employees was recidivous with the novel coronavirus. That employee left assignment on February 25th and hasn't returned.
• Google is buyoff employees in Washington state who have the demagogy to assignment remotely to do so, reports GeekWire. It's moreover buyoff employees not to bring visitors to its Washington-based offices.
• Facebook has shut fuzz one of its Seattle offices post-obituary a creator utilized predestined for novel coronavirus, and it's heartening the company's 5,000 Seattle-based employees to assignment from home until March 31st, according to CNBC. That office will reportedly reside sealed until Monday. Facebook has moreover walled witty visitors to its offices.
• Microsoft is allowing employees in its Seattle- and San Francisco-based offices to assignment from home through March 25th.
• Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said the company is "strongly encouraging" all of its employees to assignment from home "if able." He said the same guidance applies to Square, which he moreover leads.
• Bungie, which makes the popular game Destiny 2, has asked employees of its Bellevue, Washington office to assignment from home and says it has rolled out infrastructure to let the visitor endure to develop the game while fully remote.

There are currently over 97,000 conjectured cases of COVID-19, with increasingly than 3,300 deaths.

Update March 5th, 4:34PM ET: Appended information from Bungie.