On July 28, Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai announced in an internal e-mail that employees must be vaccinated before they are allowed to return to the company’s offices – according to The New York Times.

This announcement marks Google as one of the first major technology companies to require that employees be vaccinated before they return to work. Google’s vaccination requirement will reportedly apply to workers at US offices in the coming weeks and to other regions in the coming months.

Additionally, Google will be delaying its official return to offices from sometime in September to October 18th, as the Delta variant of COVID-19 continues to spike across the United States.