Late hours on Wall Street are part of industry lore, but in a post-pandemic world, banks are still hashing out official return-to-office policies. Earlier this week, moves by Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to lift COVID protocols at their offices drew attention to the ambiguity around official RTO rules across financial institutions. While messaging from the companies was shy of mandating a five-day-per-week return, lifting vaccine and testing requirements appears to be part of a broader… Source link
Read More »Apple employees launch petition to protest return-to-office plans
A group of Apple employees is pushing back against a looming deadline demanding they return to working in the office. The Financial Times has seen a petition, circulated by employee group Apple Together, requesting more flexibility around remote work. It’s in response to an edict that demanded workers return to working in the company’s Santa Clara Valley offices for at least three days a week starting September 5th, 2022. It’s the latest in a series of attempts by Apple to return to the… Source link
Read More »Apple engineer who quit over return-to-office policy joins Google
An ex-Apple executive who quit over the company’s strict return-to-office policy is joining Google just weeks later, according to a report. Ian Goodfellow — who worked as Apple’s director of machine learning until he resigned in early May — is joining Google’s DeepMind division as a contributor, Bloomberg reported. DeepMind uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to improve Google products. The news comes as Apple pushes virtually… Source link
Read More »Google’s Head of Workspace explains its return-to-office push
Welcome back to our Workplace newsletter. Today: an interview with Google’s head of Workspace, why it’s a good time to be an executive recruiter and how inflation is impacting the talent market. — Michelle Ma, reporter (email | twitter) Google is heading back to the office Monday was a big day for Google: the start of its three-days-in-office policy. The road back to the office has not been easy, with numerous pandemic-induced delays. The… Source link
Read More »Google announces campus-focused post-COVID return-to-office plan
Google will move away from largely remote operations and return to campus-focused employment with most workers onsite for at least a few days a week, the company has announced. Employees can apply to be fully remote, or move to other offices, but those who do may see their compensation cut, the blog post indicated. Google has said most employees could continue working from home until September, and the latest announcement did not change that timeline. “For more than 20 years, our employees… Source link
Read More »Google adds more flexibility to its return-to-office policies
Google headquarters in Mountain View, California. Richard Nieva/CNET Google on Wednesday said… Source link
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