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.
“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.
The Alphabet Workers Union says it has 1,400-plus members. Google employed more than 190,000 people at year-end, along with contract staffers. In January, Alphabet enacted the largest job cuts in its history, slashing more than 6 per cent of its workforce, or about 12,000 staffers. The company has also worked to reduce its real estate footprint after announcing a plan to spend US$7 billion on new offices and data centers in 2021. In its first-quarter earnings report in April, Alphabet said it spent $564 million related to office-space reductions.
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