This policy varies on a team-by-team basis, but generally Google is pretty good about giving people some flexibility in this regard. It's pretty common to see p

This policy varies on a team-by-team basis, but generally Google is pretty good about giving people some flexibility in this regard. It's pretty common to see people work from home because they e.g. have a dentist appointment in the middle of the afternoon or something. We generally treat people as responsible adults unless they give us a reason to otherwise. That said, we really value the team-building and communication that happens when everyone is in one place, and that typically means WFW (work from work) the majority of the time, so we try not to make a habit of WFH. This is kinda the same issue with remote work. We have great videoconferencing tech, but we generally find that you miss out a lot when you're apart from the rest of the team. This makes even being on a geographically distributed team kinda difficult. Some teams do a better job than others on this (e.g. Chrome is very far-flung), but it requires a lot of coordination and discipline to make it all work.