Google Employees Push Back On Three-Day Return-To-Office Mandate
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Google sent an email to employees Wednesday saying the company expected most staffers to return to the office regularly.
Google employees are pushing back against the tech giant's mandate that staffers spend at least three days a week in the office.
"Overnight, workers' professionalism has been disregarded in favor of ambiguous attendance tracking practices tied to our performance evaluations," Chris Schmidt, a Google software engineer, said Thursday in a statement released by the Alphabet Workers Union, which represents some contract and direct employees at Google.
Alphabet Inc.'s Google sent an email to employees Wednesday saying the company expected most staffers to return to the office regularly.
"Not everyone believes in 'magical hallway conversations,' but there's no question that working together in the same room makes a positive difference," Chief People Officer Fiona Cicconi wrote in the email, which was reviewed by Bloomberg. Cicconi said many of the products unveiled in May at Google I/O, the tech company's annual developer conference, and at its Google Marketing Live event were "conceived, developed and built by teams working side by side."
