Google recommends all North America employees work from home

Re:Google recommends all North America employees work from home by frenchman99 on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @08:40PM (#22541708)

Productivity is only a compelling argument if employees keep working the same hours, which they shouldn't unless they get paid more: producing more without any more salary is just another way of working for free. And while remote work has its upsides, it has its downsides too: loneliness is one that I've experienced myself and heard other colleagues mention.

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Re:Google recommends all North America employees work from home by bitL on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @09:21PM (#22541987)

Usually FAANG's competitive culture pushes developers to stay week-long at the office:

https://www.teamblind.com/post/Every-Engineer-in-my-team-at-...

I cope with loneliness by throwing parties inviting people I don't know but am somehow connected with, either via language studies, art clubs, hobbies etc. I partied with billionaires, professors from Princeton etc. that way.

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Re:Google recommends all North America employees work from home by joshuamorton on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @03:26AM (#22543825)

I'm in the minority of people who I work with who check my email on weekends. Going into the office is practically unheard of.

I've visited Google offices occasionally on weekends, and they're ghost towns.

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Re:Google recommends all North America employees work from home by bitL on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @05:56PM (#22551222)

Google is different to other FAANGs though even there e.g. SREs might be pretty overloaded at times.

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Re:Google recommends all North America employees work from home by gowld on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @09:35AM (#22545671)

You are citing someone from Amazon suprised at their Facebook experience. So it's obviously not "usually FAANG's competitive culture"

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