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Sounds like Google is eliminating remote work. Has VP Urs Holzle returned from New Zealand? https://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/google-exec-remote-work-wfh...

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You misunderstood. Such rules never apply to _those_ people's performance reviews. They are only for peons.

Same with open office plans. Managers who implement them always seem to end up with a private office, for some weird reasons.

Or, as is often reported, they commandeer one of the conference rooms for themselves.

The idea that Urs was hard core about colocation is absolutely false. I was a direct report to Urs when he was VP engineering and I telecommuted one day every week. Urs successor, Wayne Rosing, was much stricter than Urs ever was.

No, remote work is still allowed. It might be a bit more difficult to switch to a remote work contract now (but still possible), but people who are already remote will continue like this.

> people who are already remote will continue like this

My understanding is that everyone has to get approval even people who are currently remote. For those who are near an office, they are being told to expect to be asked to come in frequently.

Many people applied for fully remote work last year and got a contract with it (often with a different compensation). They already got the approval.

What changes is that new approvals will be "by exception only".

But those people are still working at will.

In most countries, no.

(not everything is in the US)

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