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Would be really helpful if the person's home city was mentioned, in addition to the name of the place they briefly passed through. "Google employee", in addition to to being reductive and dehumanizing, is vague. There's not even anything here to suggest the ill person is American, or Swiss, or what.

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I was trying to figure this out for a re-print as well; I guess they intentionally not mention whether the person is assigned to Zurich or was just visiting from elsewhere.

Neither CNBC nor BI has any explicit information about these rather important distinctions; especially considering that folks at Google travel so much.

Why would the nationality matter?

As to city - it's Zurich, they live in Zurich (or in the extended Zurich suburbs, perhaps as far as Lachen or Winterthur or Zug).

It matters because the facts in the article are consistent with the idea that the person visited the Zurich office and returned to their place of origin, or they just live there.

He's probably from Eastern-Europe, like most Googlers there, not Switzerland.

There are plenty of Italians, Chinese and Iranians in Switzerland - not at all clear why you'd choose to pick on eastern Europeans given how few cases there are in those countries.

It's true, when I was working there there were almost no Chinese people for example, but the office got more international since - not that it would really matter.

I'd just ask my tech lead to work from home from now on. It was never a problem at Google for me.

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