New York (CNN Business) Google parent company Alphabet is recommending that all of its North America employees work from home through April 10 due to coronavirus, according to an email shown to CNN. Alphabet employs nearly 120,000 full-time workers, according to its 2019 annual report. It's unclear how many people the company employs in North America alone. Google GOOGL While many companies have asked employees in certain cities to work from home or tested out large scale work from home measures is among the first to ask that employees throughout the continent do so. Amazon AMZN Microsoft MSFT Facebook FB Late last week, Google,andall began encouraging employees in Seattle to work from home as the coronavirus outbreak, also called COVID-19, spread in Washington state.

Source: CNN March 10, 2020 22:52 UTC