Google internal emails reveal how execs are prepping employees for coronavirus response

Sundar Pichai
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Alphabet‘s top executives are urging employees to stay motivated to run Google’s global infrastructure amid coronavirus fears.
“As our company manages this issue, it’s important to remember that millions of people and companies around the world are relying on us,” chief financial officer Ruth Porat wrote to employees in an internal memo viewed by CNBC.
Porat and CEO Sundar Pichai are among executives that have sent a series of emails with motivational and cautionary messages to the employees internally in the last week, calling the coronavirus state an “unsettling” time that has affected all of its offices in some way.
The leadership correspondence come as companies like Google, Facebook and Microsoft have canceled major events such as Facebook F8 and Google I/O while restricting employee travel. However, many companies haven’t shared how the disease has affected operations or …continued .
[Source: CNBC News]