Google among companies urging employees to return to office

After initially embracing long-term work from home, many tech companies have started urging employees to come back to the office, sometime with employees pushing back. Scott Budman reports.

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[paulcarter]

A company that is all about technology is saying that technology cannot help people get work done? What???

[lesterjavier]

Every single day, I am grateful to my company for letting us work remotely, albeit they were late to the remote game.

[skinnygoat]

I remember working for CGI in Virginia and they sandwiched us -3 people in a cube. There was no privacy, managers breathing down your neck, micromanagement, stress levels high. I would rather go run a food truck than commute to work.

[dre]

I’m hybrid and I caught covid in January. 6 months later I’m still struggling with symptoms. When I was in the office yesterday just walking to the bathroom or copier had me gasping for air. I’m so lucky my work is done on a computer because I would probably have to quit most other jobs.

Just because the threat of COVID has been downgraded doesn’t mean it’s effects are no longer an issue.

[olafbaeyens]

Smaller companies that accept work from home will attract the biggest talent and become a direct competition to the big companies over the next years. We are witnessing the end of giant companies.

[deansmith]

I like the Software CEO calling tech doesn't work and he prefers in person work. It's very reassuring that software from his company doesn't really work 😂! It sounds more like tech companies are working with corporate landlords to get workers in one place so they keep jacking rent up to fat cats themselves.

[ayyappatas]

Firstly, the thing is that in a closed ventilated office with a lot of employees, many airborne pathogens can spread easily like covid.

[curiouspeople]

This will force these employees to sell all their home 🏡 outside CA

[chrishan]

Not happening. I'd rather get sacked than go back to a life of soul-destroying commuting.

[Pheebe.Dee.]

Google wants their employees to return to the office to desk-share their workspace; rolled back on snack bars & food offerings; eliminated free massage, and the closure of campus shuttle buses and fitness centers. How is this an incentive to return back to the office? Just to utilize their commercial real estate? 🙄

[TonyZmex]

Good strategy to force people to quit their job instead to get them layoff

[skinnygoat]

Why is there the need to work from the office? There is no logical need for that? If anything, it saves the company money.

[copalillo]

Companies are trying to make their employees quit.

[chowfun]

Bart and Caltrain really need the boost in ridership!

[rosemariebredahl]

I suggest, as a former Dr whose chemo-brain anxiety component evolved during Covid into agoraphobia, that some employees may transition more productively if employers launch a temporary counselling program (at least to eval for possible referral to further care elsewhere).

[blueagle-diis]

these jobs will eventually go to Philippines etc if these people don't go back to the office.

[evielknievel]

Spoiled people feeling the pain of not being spoiled and actually have to work like hard working human beings. Cry babies.

[crazyadventuresandreviews]

Make them all go back to the company to work, cause if they work at home they not working they just out riding around getting in my way trying to do my route.

[MattieXMoto]

Don't comply. Sell your googl stock, take time off. Wait for smaller co to fight to hire you.

[markjordan]

Someday technology will advance to where we will have some sort of digital whiteboard...but not for like another 1000 years😂😂