When office shutdowns started happening, everyone waited for the big tech companies to make the call and copied them, just like how everyone followed Google's leetcode and hire model for all SWEs in SV.

I believe Google made the 3 days in office call starting Sept first and places started following suit.

FWIW, Google afterwards opened up the possibility of full-remote work (saying they expect ~20% of the workforce to do that iirc), but individual PAs will need to come up with actual guidelines which are due in a couple of weeks.

A huge win for WFH advocates. They must have had one to many high value employees threaten to quit.

Exactly. Google was similar to apple then walked it back to much more flexible , honesty way more appealing and forward thinking

The subtitle of your very url is:

> While 20 percent of its 140,000 employees will be fully remote

Also, further down

> While Google says the majority of its employees will work from the office around three days a week, it also says it’ll make it easier for employees to switch between offices or to work fully remotely.

Meanwhile, the subtitle of OPs is:

> Employees can work remotely for up to two weeks a year

And there's nothing about full time remote. So they seem quite different.

Fair enough, "same" is overstating it - edited.