“They get to keep everyone on campus for as long as possible and they’re keeping someone at work,” said Ms.

That was a big reason Google offered its lavish perks, said Allison Arieff, an architectural and design writer who has studied corporate campuses. Personality Changes: New research suggests that Covid's disruption of social rituals and rites of passage have made people less extroverted, creative, agreeable and conscientious.Updated Boosters: New findings show that Pfizer’s updated booster is better than its predecessor at increasing the antibody levels of people over age 55 against the most common version of the virus now circulating.Long Covid: People who took the antiviral drug Paxlovid within a few days after being infected with the coronavirus were less likely to experience long Covid months later, a study found.Warnings of a ‘Tripledemic’: An expected winter rise in Covid cases appears poised to collide with a resurgent flu season and a third pathogen straining pediatric hospitals in some states.But over the next year or so, Google will try out new office designs in millions of square feet of space, or about 10 percent of its global work spaces. At first, the interior of Google’s buildings may not appear all that different. The company will encourage - but not mandate - that employees be vaccinated when they start returning to the office, probably in September. Google is creating a post-pandemic workplace that will accommodate employees who got used to working from home over the past year and don’t want to be in the office all the time anymore.

Now, the company that once redefined how an employer treats its workers is trying to redefine the office itself. The food was free, and so were buses to and from work: Getting to the office, and staying there all day, was easy. The airy, open offices and whimsical common spaces set a standard for what an innovative workplace was supposed to look like. In 2003, five years after its founding, the company moved into a sprawling campus called the Googleplex. Google’s first office was a cluttered Silicon Valley garage crammed with desks resting on sawhorses.

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