When you are out of ideas to get ahead of the competition, blame the employees and demand to cut back on their benefits, all the while using their own perks to the maximum claiming it was needed "to get the best executive talent".

I worked 50% remote from 2017 and 100% remote from 2020 to 2023 and now about 40% remote. I am much more productive working from home than in the office with my 2.5 hour daily commute. I put in more hours and am focused working remotely. I don't need to go around wasting time at other people's desks or in the cafe just to socialize and network. My previous job was my best ever and was 100% remote.

These schmucks have no clue.


Eric Schmidt Says Google Is Falling Behind on AIAnd Remote Work Is Why
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/google-eric-schmidt-ai-remote-work-stanford-f92f4ca5?mod=hp_lead_pos10
Ex-Google CEO says the tech company finds work-life balance is 'more important than winning'

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Eric Schmidt, ex-CEO and executive chairman at Google, said his former company is losing the artificial intelligence race and remote work is to blame.
"Google decided that work-life balance and going home early and working from home was more important than winning," Schmidt said at a talk at Stanford University. "The reason startups work is because the people work like hell."
Schmidt made the comments earlier at a wide-ranging discussion at Stanford. His remarks about Google's remote-work policies were in response to a question about Google competing with OpenAI.

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The reason Google is losing these days is because they went woke. They focus on virtue signaling and posturing than on innovation. They hire every foreigner/minority who graduates from a US school whether they are good or not.


Edit:
This clown is swallowing his words.

infinity ag said:

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When you are out of ideas to get ahead of the competition, blame the employees and demand to cut back on their benefits, all the while using their own perks to the maximum claiming it was needed "to get the best executive talent".
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Eric Schmidt Says Google Is Falling Behind on AIAnd Remote Work Is Why
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/google-eric-schmidt-ai-remote-work-stanford-f92f4ca5?mod=hp_lead_pos10
Ex-Google CEO says the tech company finds work-life balance is 'more important than winning'

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The world would be a far better place without Google. Lets hope the rotten edifice falls flat.

I will retire with whatever I have before I ever work full time in an office again

People who are proactive and do well with remote work are learning new skills and building one person businesses.

Especially developers making their own tools to sell.

Teslag said:

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I will retire with whatever I have before I ever work full time in an office again

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You sound like older Hedge

I don't care who I sound like. Work isn't that important to me.

I wholeheartedly agree - I've been 100% remote for about 7 years now, and I am way more productive. Way fewer interruptions at home than in an office.

GrapevineAg said:

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I wholeheartedly agree - I've been 100% remote for about 7 years now, and I am way more productive. Way fewer interruptions at home than in an office.

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About 5 years ago (before COVID hit, I had a coworker who told me a secret. He laughed at me for sitting at my desk to figure out the projects the team was working on. He said he spent his office time socializing and visiting everyone at their desks and being their buddy. Then he went home and spent 2 hours working in peace. That seemed to work for him at that company (a famous one). He was right, my style was not a match for that place but his was and I left after 2 years as it was highly toxic and he is still there.

No one at work needs to know I can get my job done in about 1-2 hrs per day.

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No one at work needs to know I can get my job done in about 1-2 hrs per day.

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How we work in 2024 is different from how we worked in 1924. And across industries too. If you work on an assembly line, you are judged by parts per hour for example. But if you are in product management or software development or management consulting, things get more complicated. You have no deliverable where you can say I did 'x' of something. You can do 1 hour of solid Steve Job/Bill Gates/Musk level work and be done for the week and make your client millions of extra revenue. Then you go play golf with your extra time. Or you can be a dud who works 100 hours and the client sees no revenue gains.

Things are not easy to judge. But we continue to look at hours worked and have "annual goals" like we did 100 years ago. No wonder things don't work very well/.

It boils down to efficiency, employee satisfaction and results.
If someone can manage a business where stuff gets done (and their employees do the same), its a win every time. 20+ years working from home now.... wouldnt change it even if my salary doubled.

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People who are proactive and do well with remote work are learning new skills and building one person businesses.

Especially developers making their own tools to sell.

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So much this.
I recently received an offer for a startup in a role/for a project which I'm incredibly excited for but I spent so much time learning new skills and tools, to improve my marketability, I figured it would be better for my overall career goals/aspirations to apply those learnings to develop my own things.

I think he said a lot more than that, interestingly. Found this today:



No love lost from me for him/google (note; he doesn't work for them any longer), but his bigger message about AI and that he went to the White House to lobby to 'align' with Canada for power generation for the AI explosion is interesting.

Chain of thought reasoning is also a little fascinating. He does think there is an AI investment bubble though (as to the trillion dollars invested vs. 30 billion in revenue). His investment in Mistral in France (19:30) I would like to look into (and Augment). His claims about being open source are just abject lies.

And yes, his timeline adds to the imperative of this election cycle.

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I wholeheartedly agree - I've been 100% remote for about 7 years now, and I am way more productive. Way fewer interruptions at home than in an office.

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About 5 years ago (before COVID hit, I had a coworker who told me a secret. He laughed at me for sitting at my desk to figure out the projects the team was working on. He said he spent his office time socializing and visiting everyone at their desks and being their buddy. Then he went home and spent 2 hours working in peace. That seemed to work for him at that company (a famous one). He was right, my style was not a match for that place but his was and I left after 2 years as it was highly toxic and he is still there.

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A majority of people are lazy schmucks and do not have the same work ethic as you.

I'd be miserable working from home. I love the interaction I get with my customers and patients. I am glad I left big pharma years ago and started working for medtech startups.

Last I read 100% of Google's AI engineers were Chinese.

Employees love WFH bc they do far far less work. Have run multiple businesses pre and post Covid. Ppl simply don't have the same work ethic any longer - major major advantage for those out there that do.

WFH is a major barrier to innovation, most of which comes out of startups

spacemanspiff said:

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No one at work needs to know I can get my job done in about 1-2 hrs per day.

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Haha. Yup exactly

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I'd be miserable working from home. I love the interaction I get with my customers and patients. I am glad I left big pharma years ago and started working for medtech startups.

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My jobs required being present at work, product development and quality assurance. I enjoyed being able to meet with co-workers discussing projects and alternate ideas, in QA I enjoyed working with staff and employees showing the correct ways to avoid quality issues, very satisfying work.
With the large corporation I worked for in product development they had a lot of employee activities; volleyball, softball(male, female & coed), bowling, flag football. Not sure how many companies/corporations have these social programs anymore. At the end of year, the softball tournament included teams from 5 states.

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Last I read 100% of Google's AI engineers were Chinese.

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Hopefully from Taiwan and not the communist mainland.

LuoJi said:

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Employees love WFH bc they do far far less work. Have run multiple businesses pre and post Covid. Ppl simply don't have the same work ethic any longer - major major advantage for those out there that do.

WFH is a major barrier to innovation, most of which comes out of startups

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If they are doing far less work at home than the office, their manager should be fired for allowing it. If the manager can't accurately assess production over time, said manager is a moron and doesn't need to be in management or supervision.

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Teslag said:

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I will retire with whatever I have before I ever work full time in an office again

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You sound like older Hedge

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He already has enough taxpayer benefits coming in, he will be ok thanks to you and me

spacemanspiff said:

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No one at work needs to know I can get my job done in about 1-2 hrs per day.

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So like most WFH enthusiasts, for you WFH is about working less and justifying it with the belief you're just so superior that your output on below expectations hours makes up for all the hours you're stealing.


I guess at least you admit it

Teslag said:

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I will retire with whatever I have before I ever work full time in an office again

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Lol....you're a 100% disabled vet under questionable circumstances. I think you'll be fine. Aren't you still active or reserve?

Also if the company has a bunch of coasters, non workers, fix your performance management system which Execs like you designed. Perhaps fix your product organization which has become too risk averse to launch new products. So little personal accountability with these folks.

It's very much role dependent. Yes, some can be done with someone staying home and cranking out volumes of work. But I do think innovation is maximized when people are in a room together at least some of the time. Onboarding talent also requires some of that as well. Our success with new hires dripped off greatly in the 2 years we were fully remote even though we were hiring the same types of candidates as before. We're hybrid now and seeing the benefits.

Now is the time to force people back, plenty of people out of work looking for jobs and the companies have the leverage.