[Irony] Google attempting to claw back to office already approved remote
workers
In addition to the crackdown (via demerits on performance reviews) on
workers already in the now "standard" hybrid three days in the office
Google model (as I described yesterday), who are felt to not be meeting
that schedule adequately, it also appears that Google is attempting to
push already approved full remote workers to move to that hybrid model
"if they are near a Google office". Many Google workers are already
approved for full remote, and various open Google jobs have been listed
as "remote eligible", sometimes along with a specific Google office
designation, sometimes with broad designations like "U.S."
It now appears that Google is hell bent to fill that expensive office
space they've built, an irony for a firm that develops world-class video
conferencing, advanced telepresence tools, and cloud computing resources
that all help enable remote working, eliminating vast amounts of
commuting, pollution, and associated disrupted lives in the process.
Ironic.
The Kafkaesque elements of forcing workers to sit in front of screens
at the office doing exactly what they could be doing in front of
screens at home is most notably bizarre.
Googlers who have contacted me about this have noted that these new
announcements came without prior warning, and the terms under which
"exceptions" will be made to these policies have not been articulated
at this time.
I think it's fair to say that this is yet another blow to Google workers
morale, and seems contradictory to Google's presumed goal of keeping
the best possible people at the firm. -L
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