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> Google is trying to get a handle on how employees will react to so-called hybrid work. In July, the company asked workers how many days a week they would need
by mLuby 5y ago
> Google is trying to get a handle on how employees will react to so-called hybrid work. In July, the company asked workers how many days a week they would need to come to the office to be effective. The answers were divided evenly in a range of zero to five days a week.
"My responses are limited; you must ask the right questions." What getting your whole team together for 1-2 weeks per quarter? I hear some teams travelled that way in the before time.
> The majority of Google employees are in no hurry to return.… 70% said they had a “favorable” view about working from home compared with 15% who had an “unfavorable” opinion [and 15% neutral].… The company appears to be realizing its employees may not be so willing to go back to the old life.
Will be interesting to see if people actually leave or if it's just bluster.
> “No company at our scale has ever created a fully hybrid work force model,” [Google's CEO] wrote in an email a few weeks later announcing the flexible workweek.
Like communism: maybe nobody's implemented it correctly before, or maybe it's a bad idea.
- iudqnolq 5y agoThe "at our scale" is doing a lot of work there. Once you're split into different campuses I'm not sure why increased size makes remote harder.
- ffggvv 5y agonot even just different offices. the mountain view campus is so huge people in different buildings neber see each other in person