Google CEO Sundar Pichai has stated that the company's desk-sharing policy is making the employee experience better.
Google employees recently criticized the policy.
- Google recently stated that its office space costs are set to reach $500M, making for a significant expense.
- Pichai
said several employees have complained that entire parts of Google's
offices are empty and that this has made the employee experience worse.
- Company
officials added that according to initial data, Googlers collaborated
more efficiently with each other when they worked in the office and at a
shared desk.
- This policy is currently being implemented
only for cloud employees, which make up around 25% of the company's
overall workforce.
- Google is requiring employees to be in the office for three days a week in some U.S., U.K., and Asia Pacific locations.
- As
a response to employees' desire to work remotely, Google offers a
four-week period that employees can use to work from anywhere in the
world.
