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Google’s Sergey Brin urges workers to the office ‘at least’ every weekday (www.nytimes.com)

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“I recommend being in the office at least every weekday,” he wrote in a memo posted internally on Wednesday evening that was viewed by The New York Times. He added that “60 hours a week is the sweet spot of productivity” in the message to employees who work on Gemini, Google’s lineup of A.I. models and apps.

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“A number of folks work less than 60 hours and a small number put in the bare minimum to get by,” he wrote. “This last group is not only unproductive but also can be highly demoralizing to everyone else.”

Sergey Brin, who is worth $145 billion, thinks workers should come to the office on weekends, and work 60 hours a week as a "sweet spot".

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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 45 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh my god I had to re-read that. Fuuuuuck that. Seriously fuck that. All those FAANG companies are like that now. Laying off hundreds/thousands and now are trying to squeeze their employees. Nope, I do 40 hours a week and I'm content with it.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My workplace is OK with people working 24 or 32 hours a week as well; they pay them less for the 24 hours, but for 32, if the same amount of work is being done, they’re fine with less time on the job.

[–] Megaman_EXE 6 points 1 day ago

Is this office work? Please adopt me