Google teams include workers from a distance in discounts

Five years were removed from the beginning of the wild epidemic, Google Some employees demand a distance to return to the office if they want to keep their jobs and avoid being part of the broader cost discounts in the company.

Several units inside Google I told the employees away that their roles may be in danger if they did not start appearing in the nearest hybrid work schedule, according to the internal documents that CNBC sees. Some of these employees have previously been approved.

While the epidemic slides into the rear vision mirror, more companies tighten their restrictions to work from a distance, forcing some employees who have moved to distant sites to reconsider their priorities if they want to maintain their work. Change in a particularly sharp tone in the technology industry, which jumped strongly to flexible work arrangements in 2020 to the point that San Francisco Commercial real estate market He is still struggling to recover.

Google has started providing some full -time employees in the United States Voluntary acquisitions At the beginning of 2025, some employees were informed that their only choice would be if they did not return to the closest office at least a week.

The recent threats threaten the time as Google and many of its peers in costs are lowering to reduce costs at the same time Pour money into artificial intelligenceWhich requires huge expenses on infrastructure and technical talent. Since the procedure Wide demobilization In early 2023, Google made targeted discounts across different teams, confirmation The importance of increasing artificial intelligence investments.

As of the end of last year, Google had about 183,000 employees, a decrease of approximately 190,000 two years ago.

Google co -founder Sergey Brain AI workers said In February, they should be in the office every day of the week, with 60 hours a week “Sweet Production Stain”, according to a memo seen by CNBC. Brain said that the company should “Torbus charge” are making efforts to keep pace with the competition of artificial intelligence, which “accelerated greatly.”

“Decisions related to the requirements of workers ‘return are based on individual teams, not a policy at the company’s level,” said Cortina Menkini, a spokesman for the requirements of workers’ return on individual teams, not a policy at the company level.

“As we said before, personal cooperation is an important part of how to create and solve complex problems,” Menkini said in a statement to CNBC. “To support this, some teams have requested the employees who live near an office to return to personal work three days a week.”

According to one recent notification, Google technical services were informed that they are required to switch to the hybrid office or take a voluntary exit package. One -time paid transfer expenses are offered for one time to move 50 miles from the office.

Employees should choose a distance in human resources, or what Google calls the operations of people, who live 50 miles from the office, work personally on a hybrid basis by this month or their role will be canceled, according to an internal memo. Menkini said they had to return by June. Employees in that unit who have been approved can work remotely and live more than 50 miles from the office to keep their current arrangements, but the hybrid will have to have new roles in the company.

Google previously Display A full -time voluntary exit program in the United States in the operations of the Persons, starting from March, according to a memorandum sent by the head of human resources, Fiona Cicconi in February.

This came after the company said in January it would be an offer Full -time voluntary exit packages in the United States in the platform and devices group, which include Android, chromium and products such as Fitbit and Nest. The unit made discounts to nearly a scale from the teams as of this month. While internal correspondence indicated that working remotely was a worker in the demobilization of workers, Menkeeni said it was not a major consideration of changes.

A year ago, Google total Android unit with its set of devices under the leadership of Rick Ostrolet, Senior Vice President. Osterloh said in January that the voluntary exit plan may be suitable for employees who are struggling with the mixed work schedule.

Mencini told CNBC that since the groups merged, “the team focused on becoming more intelligent and working more effectively, and this included some job discounts in addition to the volunteer exit program.” She added that the unit continues to employ in the United States and the world.

Correction: The previous version of this story had an incorrect return date for human resources employees.

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