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Ars TechnicaGoogle makes office attendance part of performance reviews
Employees need to be in the office at least three days a week.
Sloan Studio@arstechnica I guess I know not to bother applying to any jobs thereâŠ
JamesN 
@arstechnica tbh they should be, but not like this.
You go to the office three days a week? Itâs no wonder you donât get anything done.
Jon@jamesn @arstechnica what evidence do you have that they aren't getting anything done? There's certainly nothing to that effect in the article. In fact, some studies showed either an increase or at least no significant change in productivity after mass work from home started. Why does physical location matter when the only thing you need to do your job is a computer and an internet connection?
@arstechnica This seems like it's part of a larger push in the tech space to keep people in the office as much as possible. Do you know of any resources to determine what the market size of the aggregated companies implementing this type of push?
Big Head Tales@arstechnica
Typical of faceless, heartless corporations.
Hey, itâs a pandemic, you need to work from home and maintain productivity without any increases during the multi-year pandemic.
Now you need to take on the expense and time of commuting again and still not see an increase or our execs are chauffeured to and from and enjoy catered meals every day will fire you.
Leon@bigheadtales @arstechnica i luckily work from home 100% with optional office attendance, but I still hold fast to my belief from when I commuted that commuting should be paid for. My commute generally took 90-120 minutes, thatâs two hours of my day that my job laid claim to for free.
No thank you! Pay me.
I feel you, I commuted for almost 3 years in bumper to bumper LA traffic averaging 90 to 120 minutes each way. that's 3-4 hours on the road a day.
@bigheadtales That's absolutely insane! I'm sorry your time is being wasted in that manner.
Stephen Collins@arstechnica cue mass departures.
Zaku@arstechnica when you canât get things done, attendance starts to become an issue.
John Breen@arstechnica So if I lived in Sunnyvale or Mountain View, which I used to, I would be looking for a new employer.
I can work for Google just fine from the woods of Maine - deal with it.
Also, are these not the people who develop all the tools to allow people to work remotely ?
I can work for Google just fine from the woods of Maine - deal with it.
Also, are these not the people who develop all the tools to allow people to work remotely ?
@arstechnica Also, I used to love going into the office in SV during the late 1990's - food delivered every evening, massage service available...good times...and the company paid their rent...
Lewis Edwards@jab01701mid @arstechnica I remember when "don't be evil" was said with a straight face.
Shephallmassive@arstechnica Google let it go..youâre never going to compete with being able see more of your kids, pets, your local community. People will look for companies with more flexibility. And women will leave first..
TomatoGrilledCheese 
@arstechnica What a shithole place to work. This is only for middle management to justify their own employment. If the pandemic has taught us anything is they arenât needed and are a financial drain on profit margins.
vandenberglegs@arstechnica My neighbour works at Google and has just started back 3 days a week. He's rightly shitty about it.
i'd just leave the company tbh. having google on your resume is a great step to bettter roles
Nico 
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Boki Peric@arstechnica I donât know how companies can ask that from their employees when almost all of the people that have work which can be done remotelly would like it better not to come to the office. The only working model that will work in the future for those kind of jobs is the hybrid one - you come to the office when you want or when the whole team agree to meet there, w/o any obligations.
Aanto Jeyaseelan@arstechnica why does every company do this? Them c-suites can't go on a day without micro managing it seems. Employees are perfectly fine at home.
Gabriel Pettier@arstechnica aka a voluntary departure based work force reduction plan.
Alan@arstechnica adding an ironic if unintended double entendre to the phrase âperformance reviewâ.
Timgray@arstechnica Google really is not very relevant anymore in the world of Tech giants. They really have fallen a lot from the heydays of "do not evil". They used to innovate now they are stuck making the same mistakes as other old outdated businesses.
ăăŁăȘăŒ@timgray @arstechnica The money is still very good.
@arstechnica Going into the office is one thing but I wish management would stop mandating that all workers must use the slides to get around the office. The chafing is becoming an epidemic.
kira :3@arstechnica i wonder what problem they're going to fix by forcing their people to do this. fake/bot-generated results in search? the inundation of hard right content on youtube? the general enshittification of the rest of the content on youtube? maybe they'd be meeting their company goals better if they hadn't just done those layoffs