Google's CEO says the future of work involves a 'hybrid model' and that the company is already reconfiguring its offices for employee 'on-sites'
that the decision was made in part to help working parents whose children might be learning partially or totally remotely this school year. Pichai said there were several factors that went into the decision.
"Early on as this started, I realized it was going to be a period of tremendous uncertainty, so we wanted to lean in and give certainty where we could," Pichai said. "The reason we made the decision to do work from home until mid of next year is we realized people were trying hard to plan ... and it was affecting productivity."
Pichai said making such a long-term decision forced the company to embrace their new reality: that working from home is here to stay, at least in some capacity. And employees seem to agree: at the company found that 62% employees believe they only need to be in the office "some days" in order to do their work well, while 20% don't feel like they need to come to the office at all.
Pichai also touched upon a larger issue for those who live in the San Francisco Bay Area: affordability. The cost of living in the Bay Area has, in recent years, become too high even for those who might be considered high earners in other regions.
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