Google wants to punish workers who have not shown up to work regularly.
According to internal documents seen by CNBC, the company updated its hybrid work policy on Wednesday. The new policy includes tracking office card attendance, talking to workers who don’t show up when they’re supposed to, and including attendance in performance reviews. Most workers should be in their offices at least three days a week.
Fiona Cicconi, Google’s chief people officer, sent an email to workers late in the day on Wednesday. In it, she told them to come to the office more often because “there’s just no substitute for meeting in person.”
“Of course, not everyone believes in ‘magical hallway conversations,’ but working together in the same room definitely makes a difference,” Cicconi wrote in an email. “Many of the products we showcased at I/O and Google Marketing Live last month were created by teams working together.”
His memo said the company will start including his three days a week in its performance reviews and that teams will start sending reminders to workers “who are always out of the office.”
Cicconi even asked people already allowed to work from home to think again. “We expect people who work from home and live near a Google office to switch to a hybrid plan. You will be more connected to the Google group in our offices.”
A separate internal document showed that remote workers who have already been approved could be re-evaluated if the company finds “substantial changes in business need, role, team, structure or location.”
One of the documents says the company will use the badge data to periodically check whether employees are following the office attendance policy in the US. Executives are currently reviewing local requirements to implement them in other countries. If employees don’t follow the policy for a long time, HR will talk to them about “next steps.”
Cicconi said that in the future, “only exceptions” will be made for new jobs completely online.
In a statement to CNBC, Google spokesman Ryan Lamont said: “Our hybrid approach is made to combine the best parts of being together in person with the best parts of working from home for part of the week. Since we’ve been using this way of working for over a year, we’re incorporating it into all of our workplace rules.
Lamont also said that the data about the badges that company heads see is not specific to each person.
These policy changes are the company’s most stringent efforts to get people back into real offices.
After receiving criticism for bringing people back to the office in 2021, the company changed its plans for remote work, saying it would let 20% of its workers work from home. But as of April 2022, most employees were expected to be in real offices at least three days a week. At the time, the company tried to attract workers by organizing a private Lizzo concert, hiring music bands, and calling on city mayors to celebrate the returns.
In April, CNBC said that Google no longer required people to have the Covid vaccine to enter its buildings.
The crackdown comes at a time when the company is in the midst of an “AI arms race” in which it has at times called on everyone to help it quickly catch up with competitors like Microsoft and OpenAI, whose success has been on the decline. increase in recent months. In recent weeks, Google has also done more to stop leaks from inside the company.
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