{UAH} Apple tells ALL its 12,000 staff at the Cupertino HQ to work from home with immediate effect

• Apple issued a memo to its employees based at the Santa Clara Valley headquarters Apple Park advising them to remain home Friday 
• Offices will remain open but the 12,000 Cupertino staff were told to stay away
• Facebook has also told all San Fran workers to stay at home and cancel business trips on Friday
• Facebook already closed its Seattle office when a contractor there was infected 
• The closure sees about 17,000 Facebook employees working from home
• Microsoft has also told San Francisco Bay and Seattle workers to stay at home
• The Seattle bases houses 54,000 employees, a third of its global staff  
• The company is paying hourly workers even if they can't come into work  
• An estimated  83,000 workers are affected between the three companies
• Google is asking employees in Washington state who have the ability to work from home to do so 
• An employee at Amazon's Seattle headquarters was also confirmed to have tested positive for coronavirus earlier this week 
• California state issued a state of emergency Thursday as the number of coronavirus cases grew 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8082517/Microsoft-Facebook-embrace-home-working-amid-coronavirus-crisis.html?ito=push-notification&ci=9307&si=1014358  

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