Google and Amazon limit employees’ travel because of coronavirus fears

Photo by Olly Curtis/Future via Getty Images Google is preventing employees from traveling to Italy, Iran, Japan, and South Korea because of outbreaks of the novel coronavirus, Business Insider reported. Amazon is asking employees to defer all nonessential travel, a spokesperson confirmed to The Verge, which includes domestic travel within the US.
Both companies had already halted employee travel to China, and Google temporarily closed down its offices in China at the end of January.A Google em