Goldman Sachs emerged as one of the strongest advocates of a post-pandemic return to the office this year, but the fight for talent could be forcing the investment bank to reverse course and offer employees more time away from their desks instead. In an internal memo seen by the Financial Times, the investment bank said it would offer junior staff a minimum of two extra days off each year. But senior staff will get an even bigger perk—one more commonly associated with Silicon Valley than… Source link
Read More »Tom Brady’s next gig, uncertainty in Raiders front office
Subscribe to You Pod to Win the Game It’s nice to have your next job lined up before you leave your current one. Especially if that job pays $37.5 million per year Tom Brady‘s next gig as lead analyst for FOX — whenever he decides to hang up the cleats. Charles Robinson is joined by Wall Street Journal’s Andrew Beaton to react to this morning’s mind blowing report that TB12 will be heading to the booth for some serious change that is sure to change the landscape of the television talent… Source link
Read More »Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky, who recently announced employees can work from home forever, calls the office an ‘anachronistic form’ and ‘from a pre-digital age’
Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky.Kimberly White/Getty Images Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky recently announced the company will let employees work remotely forever without losing pay. In an interview for Time’s The Leadership Brief, he said “the office as we know it, is over.” He also explained why he thinks the three-day in-office hybrid model is flawed. For Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky, working at the office is now a relic of the past. In an interview for Time’s The Leadership Brief published Sunday,… Source link
Read More »Google employees get private Lizzo concert as they return to office
Zoom In IconArrows pointing outwards Google hires Lizzo to perform for return-to-office “celebration” among thousands of employees Emma Wong @_emwong_ For years, Google lured people to its sprawling Silicon Valley campus with the promise of amazing perks, like gourmet meals from top chefs and massages. Now, there’s Lizzo. Earlier this month, as Google officially started bringing employees back to the office following more than two years of pandemic-induced remote work, the company used the large… Source link
Read More »JPMorgan employees describe the ‘fear of God’ and ‘panic’ as the company tracks their office attendance
Jamie Dimon, Chair and CEO of JPMorgan ChaseJ. Lawler Duggan/For The Washington Post via Getty Images JPMorgan has asked hybrid employees to come into the office at least 3 days a week. The bank is tracking ID swipes to monitor staffers’ office attendance. One executive described there being a “fear of God” and “panic” over the attendance quotas. JPMorgan has started tracking staffers’ office attendance, and employees say it’s creating an atmosphere of mistrust and panic. Insider reported… Source link
Read More »Google is hoping to lure employees back to the office with pinball … and Lizzo
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Read More »The 3 ‘biggest mistakes’ companies make with return to office
Google employees returned to the office this week after more than two years of remote work and changing plans about when – and how – to bring people back. The tech behemoth joins a growing list of companies bringing workers back on-site this spring that includes Meta, American Express and Apple. Google’s new hybrid work arrangement requires most employees to be in the office at least three days per week, with the other two days spent working remotely. Javier Soltero, the vice… Source link
Read More »Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt on why people should return to the office
After more than two years of remote work and multiple return-to-office delays, most Google employees are heading back to the office at least part-time — and ex-Google CEO and chairman Eric Schmidt couldn’t be happier about it. “[I]t’s important that these people be at the office, in my view,” Schmidt, 66, tells CNBC Make It, arguing that for decades, the in-office style has been proven effective. “I’m a traditionalist.” Starting Monday, Google’s hybrid work arrangement kicked off, with most… Source link
Read More »Google gives workers free Unagi scooters to return to office
Googlers crawling back to campus this week may not find bidets in the bathroom. Instead, the company is offering them free electric scooters from Unagi, The Verge reported Monday. Unagi founder and CEO David Hyman told The Verge that Google is offering the 20 mph scooters to most of its U.S. employees to help with the commute to work, which most haven’t had to undertake regularly in the last two years. The $990 scooters are available on a subscription basis, and Google will reportedly… Source link
Read More »Google’s former HR chief says your boss wants to boil you slowly like a frog to get you back in the office, and it will be terrible for morale and productivity
Beating the Monday blues will be especially trying for Google employees this week. Starting today, workers are required to come into company headquarters three times a week. But according to Laszlo Bock, former chief of Google human resources and current CEO of Humu, this hybrid model won’t be around much longer. Bock says that after three to five years of flexible work models and hybrid plans, the normal in-office schedule will prevail at Google—and beyond. He predicts this transition… Source link
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