What will happen to the cafeteria workers and janitors of Silicon Valley who can't work from home? Cafeteria staff at Yahoo and janitors who worked at Lyft have been laid off, while Facebook and Apple have committed to support these workers.
With many Silicon Valley companies extending their remote-work plans well into next year — or even indefinitely — because of the coronavirus pandemic, service workers whose duties can’t be done from home are hoping they can somehow hang onto their jobs even as campuses remain closed, or have already been let go.
“As companies talk about Black and brown lives mattering, we hope they take responsibility like Facebook and Cisco, which have actually so far made a decision to support these workers,” said Maria Noel Fernandez, campaign director for Silicon Valley Rising, an alliance of labor groups and community leaders.Besides Facebook Inc. FB, -0.89% and Cisco Systems Inc. CSCO, -1.38%, other big tech companies that have pledged to keep their hourly workers compensated include Alphabet Inc. GOOGL, -2.
“Given the uncertainty that lies ahead, we’ve had to make some very difficult decisions,” a Eurest spokeswoman said in an email. “Sadly, we had to share the news with some of our associates that their positions were eliminated due to the impacts of COVID-19… Our hope, along with the rest of the country, is that we will be able to bring our associates back and return to normal service as quickly as possible.
“We’re holding our breath in terms of the janitorial industry,” she said. “Their work is more relevant now” during a pandemic, she added. But she acknowledged that workspaces have changed and that offices are still largely closed. Lyft and Salesforce have not returned requests for comment. A Dropbox spokesman said the company’s security and janitorial staffing is “proportionate with the needs of our office space.”
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