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Google’s Once Happy Offices Feel the Chill of Layoffs

Google’s Once Happy Offices Feel the Chill of Layoffs

When Diane Hirsh Theriault’s co-worker returned from lunch to Google’s Cambridge, Mass., office one afternoon in October, his work badge couldn’t open a turnstile. He quickly realized it was a sign that he had been laid off. Ms. Hirsh Theriault soon learned that most of her fellow Google News engineers in Cambridge had also lost their jobs. More than 40 people in the news division were cut, a company union said, though a number of them were later offered jobs elsewhere inside Google. Ms…. Source link

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House members blocking McCarthy speaker bid meet at offices of ex-Trump chief Mark Meadows

House members blocking McCarthy speaker bid meet at offices of ex-Trump chief Mark Meadows

Several Republican House members fighting to stop Rep. Kevin McCarthy from becoming speaker met Friday morning at the offices of the Conservative Partnership Institute, an organization run by Mark Meadows and Jim DeMint. Meadows, a former Republican congressman from North Carolina, was chief of staff to former President Donald Trump and played a central role in efforts to overturn the 2020 election. He joined CPI as senior partner in January 2021, a few weeks after Trump supporters stormed… Source link

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Google Offices: You Won’t Believe Work Gets Done at These Three Spaces

Google Offices: You Won’t Believe Work Gets Done at These Three Spaces

Google offices may have slides, climbing walls, nap pods, and basketball courts, but they aren’t adult playgrounds, at least not wholly. “I think that the assumptions are very surface level,” Joshua Bridie, Google’s director of global interior design, tells AD. Movies like The Internship and video tours of the tech giant’s workspaces have long offered glimpses into the home bases of Googlers across the globe, prompting common adjectives to surface when discussing the infamous… Source link

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Google hologram video call booths coming to WeWork, T-Mobile offices

Google hologram video call booths coming to WeWork, T-Mobile offices

Holograms aren’t just for dead celebrities anymore. In fact, it might not be long before you’re attending a virtual work meeting with lifelike, 3D representations of your colleagues. That’s the future Google is working toward: The company says it’s expanding testing of its Project Starline, 3D video call booths where you can chat with holographic versions of your friends, family or coworkers. After testing the booths in its own offices over the past year, the company now intends to place them… Source link

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Google to invest $9.5 bln in U.S. offices, data centers this year

Google to invest $9.5 bln in U.S. offices, data centers this year

A sign is pictured outside a Google office near the company’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, U.S., May 8, 2019. REUTERS/Paresh Dave/File Photo/File Photo Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register April 13 (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google said on Wednesday it plans to invest about $9.5 billion across its U.S. offices and data centers this year, up from $7 billion last year. Google said the investment will create at least 12,000 full-time jobs in 2022… Source link

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Google Chicago Workers Return To Offices — But Just For 3 Days A Week

FULTON MARKET — Mimosas, cupcakes, prize raffles and a full-service breakfast bar welcomed back nearly 2,000 employees at Google’s Midwest headquarters in Fulton Market Tuesday. They also arrived at the office with new rules. With its official reopening this week, Google executives said the company has adopted a “flexible workweek” with employees required to work from the office three days a week, with no planned date to implement a full five-day return. “Three days a week we feel… Source link

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