Google to managers: Let’s save the jokes for next April

It’s certainly not the time for jokes. And search giant Google rightly seems to agree. According to a report in Business Insider, the company is is canceling all its Fool’s Day pranks this year. According to the report, Lorraine Twohill, head of marketing at Google, wrote in an email (first obtained by Business Insider) to the company’s managers, “Under normal circumstances, April Fools’ is a Google tradition and a time to celebrate what makes us an unconventional company.”
Announcing the break from the tradition for this year, the email added, “This year, we’re going to 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 Fools efforts but realize there may be smaller projects within teams that we don’t know about,” the email further said.