Google announced they are cancelling the physical/in-person version of their massive developer conference, Google I/O, over concerns with the Coronavirus. This was no surprise, as Facebook, Amazon, and other big tech companies have done the same.

Google wrote:

Many, if not most, of Google employees are now working from home. John Mueller said he is not physically going to conferences, he will instead do them over video conferencing:

I’ve seen numerous reports that Google Ads teams stopped traveling to clients and now do video calls instead:

I personally decided to postpone my vlogging trip to NYC (45 minutes away) today but most people said I should not have:

In any event – I do hope this all settles down soon and we all stay healthy.

Forum discussion at Twitter.