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Re:Google mandates workers back to Silicon Valley, other off... by skybrian on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @06:57PM (#30535247)
Yes, there is a great deal of flexibility and patience. I worked from home a couple days a week.

In the old days, they drew the line at going full-remote. When the Atlanta office closed, everyone there had to either move somewhere else or, eventually, leave. I guess that's changed.

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Re:Google mandates workers back to Silicon Valley, other off... by Xcelerate on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @07:29PM (#30535487)
Why did that office originally close? And haven’t they opened a new, larger one since then?
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Re:Google mandates workers back to Silicon Valley, other off... by DannyBee on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @08:13PM (#30535846)
2010. Google was very different then, and was honestly somewhat immature about location strategy. It is no longer like that, in large part as a response to Atlanta back then.

We are opening a new larger space (in the next few months), and have over a thousand people here now.

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Re:Google mandates workers back to Silicon Valley, other off... by hn_go_brrrrr on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @07:54PM (#30535689)
Engineering offices need an exec to serve as site lead. Whoever was there left or moved, and I guess they couldn't find a replacement. There is now an engineering office there again, so someone must have wanted (or been willing) to move there.
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Re:Google mandates workers back to Silicon Valley, other off... by DannyBee on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @08:09PM (#30535815)
That would be me. I'm the tech site lead for Atlanta. The first part was certainly true many years ago (Bruce left). However, that was actually a driver for change way back in 2010 because nobody thought that was a good result
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