[dickeytk]

Without knowing much about the team I really doubt this has much to do with remote work. It seems like a smart move to take pressure off team deliverables in general right now for a host of reasons.

[kinlan]

It's a mix of many things. Our teams all working remote for the first time and dealing with the same issues all people are dealing with. And then also at the same time if we put pressure on external developers with breaking changes or new bugs then it doesn't seem the right thing to do for users and developers at this time.

[steren]

A lot of googlers are remote while caring for their children at home. This definitely reduces productivity.

[LanceH]

Local schools are leaning heavily on chromebooks. They have checked them out to students without computers. Adding an os update to this would contribute to the chaos.

[enneff]

OS updates on ChromeOS are seamless and mostly go unnoticed by the user, FWIW.

[tmpz22]

Stress can impact the human immune system and reduce our ability to fight off an infection, on that note alone it's worth adding some more slack to these important but not truly essential releases.