WFH? Google Cloud's offices like a 'ghost town' before new policy
Google’s CEO described the office environment for its cloud staff in the US as a “ghost town” to explain why he is backing a desk-sharing pilot scheme for staff at five locations across the country., only around 30 percent of staff were coming into office once or twice a week and Sundar Pichai called out an inefficient use of funds amid expense scrutiny.
“To me it’s obvious that they are trying to be efficient and save money but at the same time also utilize resources,” the Google chief said. “There are people, by the way, who routinely complain that they come in and there are big swaths of empty desks and it feels like it’s a ghost town - it’s just not a nice experience.”, which comprise around a third of the workforce, that under the Cloud Office Evolution program “most” of them will be required to “share a desk with one other Googler.
“Through the matching process, they will agree on a basic desk setup and establish norms with the desk partner and team to ensure a positive experience in the new shared environment,” Google told workers in the Cloud division. As we pointed out at the time, this is a world away from the perks that employees act Google are often lavished with, including a fee on-site gym, free meals and free massage therapies., Google is tightening its belt following a slowdown in financial growth, and a realization that the recruitment policies deemed fit for purpose during the early years of the pandemic no longer match economic reality.
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