I don't see that at all. A hybrid culture sure, but all remote work? I think it's way too early to tell if companies like this will end up with a few marquee offices in places like NYC, SF, Berlin that employees who want to can go to while everyone else can work remote. I'm more ambivalent now but in my early 20's I definitely wanted to be in an office in a big city where I was with lots of colleagues in an energizing environment.

Indeed, it's orthogonal to their information collection strategy to encourage non-digital communication.

I don't see anything on that list that can effectively compete with the speed, efficiency and fluency of a quick huddle around a whiteboard.

What nonsense, they were one of the first companies to send people home to work remote. First week of March if I recall. And we will be one of the last to go back... they're not asking for us to come back until January at the earliest, and even then we will have the option to work fully remotely, and even coming in it's only 3/5 days a week.

Honestly, I've been going in voluntarily 3 days a week recently because I like it -- it's a distraction free environment where I can focus, have better Internet, get free food, not have to do dishes, listen to my kids argue, etc;

HN has recently become an echo chamber of remote work advocates. Not everyone wants to work remote. Not every job is amenable to it. And as a software engineer I'm far more productive in the office than at home.

I'm glad Google is still investing in our offices.