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A comment on Google's push to bring employees back to offices, some say they'll rather quit. Parent comment

Re:Google's push to bring employees back to offices, some sa... by spoonjim on Friday April 30, 2021 @01:06PM (#26996171)
I agree that Google management made this decision mostly on gut feel. But I think that it aligns with my own gut feel, which is that it’s going to be very hard for a fully remote team to invent the next Waymo car or iPad or whatever, and I also think that it will be very hard for a junior engineer to get the same learning remotely as they do colocated with 20 year tenured engineers. If I was CEO of Google I would have made the same decision.
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Re:Google's push to bring employees back to offices, some sa... by CarelessExpert on Friday April 30, 2021 @01:31PM (#26996544)
> I agree that Google management made this decision mostly on gut feel. But I think that it aligns with my own gut feel

There's another term for that: Confirmation bias.

That's fine, but let's not pretend your opinion is any more valid than anyone else's, including the individual employees who feel differently.

The reality is no one, here, is actually basing their opinion on data. Absent that this is basically faith. Which is great 'cuz then we can all just agree to disagree. ;)

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Re:Google's push to bring employees back to offices, some sa... by spoonjim on Friday April 30, 2021 @01:41PM (#26996703)
The difference is that the individual employee advocating for WFH is doing so because it’s better for them, not because it’s better for Google. The interests of capital and labor are not necessarily aligned here.
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Re:Google's push to bring employees back to offices, some sa... by CarelessExpert on Friday April 30, 2021 @02:37PM (#26997488)
Frankly, that makes me even more suspicious of any claims by either side that are not backed by data. Confirmation bias isn't a good basis for credulity.
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