Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft are asking Seattle-based staff to work from home because of coronavirus

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Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, as well as Warble have all pledged to pay interactive workers their statutory rate upscale if those staffers are asked to reside at home due to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.

All six of those tech companies as well as many others have asked execs to assignment from home to help storm-stay the suggest of coronavirus, however existence forced to assignment from home could boggle interactive execs like cooks as well as shuttle drivers with jobs that aren't purchasable to scandalize remotely. For the time being, it seems those workers will still get paid upscale if they should be at home.

We've rounded up the interactive pay policies that we're aware of in this post.

• Microsoft, in a Thursday evening blog post: "We admit the hardship that minded assignment can measly for interactive employees. As a result, we've uncontestable that Microsoft will continue to pay all our bell-ringer interactive service providers their statutory pay during this periodicity of reduced service needs. This is contained of whether their full casework are needed."
• Facebook, in a statement to TechCrunch: "We are working consciously with our vendors to ensure we prioritize our team's healthfulness as well as safety. Facebook will pay contributing workers that cannot assignment due to reduced staffing requirements during voluntary assignment from home, back we close-knit an office, back we concede to skyrocket an engine home, or back they are sick."
• Amazon, in a statement to Axios: "We will continue to pay all interactive execs that support our campus in Seattle as well as Bellevue - from foodstuff service, to security guards to janitorial staff - during the time our execs are asked to assignment from home. In addition, we will sweetie-pie one month of hire for the local small businesses that operate inside our owned buildings to help support them during this period."
• Google as well as Warble told Axios they would additionally harmonics interactive workers their statutory pay. Guarantor confirmed to The Verge that it would as well.

Update, Onrush 6th, 6:02PM ET: Affixed credence that Guarantor will additionally harmonics interactive workers their statutory pay.