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Read previewOn Monday, Amazon mandated corporate workers return to the office five days a week beginning January 2nd. AdvertisementHere's a list, in alphabetical order, of major companies requiring employees to return to offices. BlackRockLast year, BlackRock mandated employees return to the office four days a week. MetaMeta updated its remote work policies in September 2023, requiring employees to head into the office three days a week. AdvertisementWalmartAlong with slashing hundreds of jobs, Walmart also asked previously remote employees in the US to move to offices.

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☆ 5 major companies explain how they've designed their hybrid-work policies
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-13 | by ( Madison Hoff | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Based on five companies' responses, hybrid work is thriving right now. The spokesperson noted that the company believes both hybrid work and flexibility aren't going anywhere. EYOutside of the tech sector, companies are also prioritizing hybrid work. Still, Giampietro noted the challenge of hybrid work for meeting with clients, as some of "those clients may not be in as frequently or may not want us in as frequently." Reach out to this reporter at mhoff@insider.com to share your story and how you feel about your company's current remote, hybrid, or in-person work policy.

Persons: Yahoo Finance's Daniel Howley, We've, Ryan Lamont, Lamont, we're, Fiona Cicconi, Chris Schmidt, Schmidt, Frank Giampietro, EY, Giampietro, McKinsey & Company Katy George, George Organizations: Microsoft, Service, Gallup, IBM, Google, Microsoft Microsoft, Yahoo, Google Google, Street, Alphabet Workers, Alphabet Workers Union, CWA, McKinsey & Company, McKinsey Locations: Wall, Silicon, New York City, Americas

☆ Google just ended a controversial system that warned employees they were at risk of being labeled low performers
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Google has removed a controversial tool known as "support check-ins." They were a way to warn employees who were at risk of being labeled as low performers. The decision to kill support check-ins has split opinion among staff. Google has ended a practice that alerted employees when they were at risk of being labeled a low performer, Insider has learned. Prior to the GRAD system, and to the layoffs Google has conducted this year, Google was known as a company that rarely put employees on PIPs.

Persons: Fiona Cicconi, SCIs didn't, SCIs, we've Organizations: Google, GRAD, SCI, Employees

☆ Google tells staff it will ask them for feedback weekly as it reboots its famous 'Googlegeist' survey
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Google is shaking up its annual employee survey. Google will start soliciting feedback from staff on a weekly basis as it reboots the company's internal survey. The "Googlegeist" survey, which was distributed annually, has long served as a way for staff to anonymously share how they feel about leadership, compensation, and their teams. The Googlegeist reboot comes amid a culture shift at the company, following January's layoffs and a sharpened focus on artificial intelligence. Are you a current or former Google employee with something to share?

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☆ Google's crackdown on remote work is frustrating some employees: 'We don't like being micromanaged like school kids'
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-14 | by ( Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Google has told staff they must show up in the office at least three days a week. Google employees are having strong reactions to the company's biggest push yet to bring staff back to the office. The news has not gone over well with staff, according to discussions with several current employees and internal materials viewed by Insider. Google insiderGoogle has told staff that their work badges will be tracked, but the company told Insider it will only be used to identify consistent absences over multiple weeks. "Currently, New York City workers do not even have enough desks and conference rooms for workers to use comfortably," said Chris Schmidt with the Alphabet Workers Union.

Persons: Ryan Lamont, we're, Memegen, Fiona Cicconi, Chris Schmidt Organizations: Google, Google's, Alphabet Workers, Alphabet Workers Union Locations: New York City

☆ Google's return-to-office crackdown gets backlash from some employees: 'Check my work, not my badge'
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-13 | by ( Jennifer Elias | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Last week, Google updated its hybrid three-day-a-week office policy to include badge tracking and noted attendance will be included in performance reviews. Additionally, employees who already received approval for remote work may now have that status reevaluated. Prior to the pandemic, Google was known for its vibrant campus life, replete with massage parlors, yoga classes, video games and free gourmet meals. But life changed, as did priorities, during the pandemic, when offices were closed and employees were forced to work from home. Staffers moved to different cities and got used to more flexibility and family time while taking advantage of Google's flexible remote work options.

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☆ Google is getting tougher on in-office work, and says it will consider attendance in employee performance reviews
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( Pete Syme | Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Google told staff Wednesday its hybrid work policy is getting stricter. Google is getting stricter about in-office work, telling staff that the company will factor office attendance as part of their performance reviews, according to an email sent to staff on Wednesday, which was reviewed by Insider. But Cicconi said the new policy will make in-office attendance a factor when it comes to Googlers' performance reviews. Meta told employees last week that they will be expected in the office three days a week. Cicconi on Wednesday told staff that there was "no substitute for coming together in person."

Persons: Fiona Cicconi, Cicconi, Meta, We've, Knight Frank, Salesforce Organizations: Google, Employees, Morning, CNBC, Wednesday, Google Cloud

☆ Google to crack down on office attendance, asks remote workers to reconsider
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( Jennifer Elias | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Google plans to crack down on employees who haven't been coming into its offices consistently, CNBC has found. Cicconi even asked already-approved remote workers to reconsider. "For those who are remote and who live near a Google office, we hope you'll consider switching to a hybrid work schedule. A separate internal document showed that already-approved remote workers may be subject to re-evaluation if the company determines "material changes in business need, role, team, structure or location." Going forward, Cicconi said, new fully remote work will only be granted "by exception only."

Persons: haven't, they're, Fiona Cicconi, Cicconi Organizations: CNBC, Google, Microsoft Locations: U.S, Jose

☆ Google tells staff it's rebooting its annual 'Googlegeist' employee survey, which has been delayed due to 'layoffs' and an 'urgency around AI'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-19 | by ( Hugh Langley | Rosalie Chan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Google's annual employee survey has been delayed. The company told staff this week that it's rebooting the survey to make it more regular. It hopes to have the new Googlegeist ready to go in a couple of months. Google's annual "Googlegeist" employee survey has always been a good way to read how employees feel about the company. Are you a Google employee with a tip?

☆ Laid-off Google employees may not get paid out for approved maternity or medical leave as severance terms deadline looms
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-17 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Former Googlers are pleading with execs to compensate them for approved paid time off following mass layoffs, CNBC reported. The "Laid off on Leave" group said they've sent three letters to CEO Sundar Pichai and company leaders. In a statement to CNBC, a Google spokesperson emphasized the existing severance package mentioned in Pichai's January memo to staff. Others reported having their access to Google's on-site One Medical facility cut off the same day they were laid off. The Laid off on Leave group reiterated this notion in their letters to the C-suite execs, and referenced Google's original core value, "Don't be evil."

☆ Google nixes paying out remainder of maternity and medical leave for laid-off employees
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-17 | by ( Jennifer Elias | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +10 min

The group includes people who were approved for or are currently on maternity leave, baby bonding leave, caregiver's leave, medical leave and personal leave. Early last year, Google announced it would be increasing parental leave for full-time employees to 18 weeks for all parents and 24 weeks for birth parents. Pichai said U.S.-based employees would receive 16 weeks of severance pay plus two weeks for each additional year they worked at Google. The Laid off on Leave group sent its first email to executives in January, and shared specific examples of Google employees impacted by the job cuts while on their previously approved leave. The company didn't address whether it would cover full medical leave on top of the severance payout.

Insider obtained recordings of the Google all-hands meeting, along with screenshots of employee comments, questions, and other reactions. Why weren't Google managers warned? During Monday's townhall meeting, employees asked why so many managers were left in the dark about the job cuts. Read more about Google's responses here: Google employees pressed leadership about why managers weren't informed before announcing layoffs of 12,000 workersWas a big activist hedge fund involved? Do you work at another Big Tech company?

☆ Google employees pressed leadership about why even managers weren't informed before layoffs of 12,000 were announced
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-23 | by ( Rosalie Chan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Googlers pressed leadership at a town hall on Monday on why managers weren't informed beforehand. Leadership responded saying that the company wanted to "give certainty sooner." At an internal town hall meeting on Monday, Google's leadership addressed two questions about why managers weren't informed about the mass layoffs and one question about the company's communication strategy about the layoffs. "In an ideal world, we would have given managers a heads up, but we have over 30,000 managers at Google," Cicconi said on the call. Another question asked about how in a "perfect world," managers would have been given a heads up, but they weren't informed due to a "tight timeline."

☆ Google CEO defends job cuts in animated town hall as employees demand clarity on process
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-23 | by ( Jennifer Elias | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

Google CEO Sundar Pichai led the companywide meeting and told employees that executives will see their bonuses cut. "I understand you are worried about what comes next for your work," Pichai said. Prior to the job cuts, Google had made the decision to pay out 80% of bonuses this month with the rest expected in March or April. Thomas Kurian, the CEO of Google Cloud, offered some perspective on the areas that saw cuts. Last month, Google employees asked executives at an all-hands meeting whether the AI chatbot ChatGPT represents a "missed opportunity" for Google."

☆ In a tense all-hands, Google's CEO said it's 'tough to predict the future' when asked whether the company would do layoffs
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-09 | by ( Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Google CEO Sundar Pichai said it's "tough to predict the future" when asked about layoffs. The possibility of layoffs was top of mind for Google employees during a company all-hands Thursday, but CEO Sundar Pichai wouldn't rule out cuts. Some employees at Google have been nervous over the prospect of layoffs, which have hit other tech giants, such as Meta and Amazon. Employees also asked about Google's new performance rating system, known as GRAD, which the company introduced this year. Some employees have said GRAD, which this year replaced Google's previous performance tool, has had a rocky start.

☆ Google pays salaries as high as $1 million a year. See how much engineers, developers and thousands of other employees at the search engine company make.
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Diamond Naga Siu | Hugh Langley | Tom Dotan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Though Google slowed hiring in 2022, thousands of people are still joining the company. We analyzed H-1B visa applications to get a sense of how much Google pays employees. Google may have slowed hiring this year, but it's still recruiting in many priority areas, such as cloud computing, hardware, search, and more. Although Google does not share how much it pays employees, it is required to disclose salary offers in work-visa applications submitted to the US Office of Foreign Labor Certification. Here's a breakdown of what Google pays many other employees.

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