The 1st of April month is known for Fools’ Day jokes and many companies come up with a number of pranks. But this year, it is not going to be the same as the world is fighting a pandemic. Due to the outbreak of coronavirus and the present situation, Google has taken a major decision on the Fools’ Day jokes.
According to a report, Google says that its highest goal right now is to be helpful to people and save the Fools’ Day jokes for April 2021. The company further adds that it has stopped the centralized efforts for April Fools’ Day jokes and has directed its teams to pause on Fools’ Day jokes that were planned.
It is indeed a step in the right direction by Google and it will not be a wise decision to come up with jokes and information that might mislead people during this time. Other companies that have planned Fools’ Day jokes are expected to withdraw as well.
An internal email by Google read,
Google will take the year off from that tradition out of respect for all those fighting the Covid-19 pandemic. Our highest goal right now is to be helpful to people, so let’s save the jokes for next April, which will undoubtedly be a whole lot brighter than this one.
We’ve already stopped any centralized April Fool’s efforts but realize there may be smaller projects within teams that we don’t know about,” the email from Google’s head of marketing Lorraine Twohill continues. Please suss out those efforts and make sure your teams pause on any jokes they may have planned — internally or externally.