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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has told engineers at the tech giant that they should return to the office five days a week to help improve AI models that could ultimately replicate their work.
The reclusive 51-year old billionaire himself started returning to Mountain View following the launch of ChatGPT, which left Google on its back foot and raised concerns the company had fallen behind in a nascent field that had been developed within its own walls but was commercialized by OpenAI.
Brin—who is worth an estimated $144 billion and still owns a single-digit percent of Google shares—is trying to instill more urgency amongst employees, telling other Googlers working on AI that they must pick up the pace if they are going to win against the likes of OpenAI and Microsoft.
What get's me is "break your back to make yourself obsolete" mindset.There is a reason I didn't work for Microsoft when I left college, companies like that like to wring you dry of energy and then ask for more. That is exactly what he is asking for here.
I don't have anything against people who love their work and end up working 60-hour weeks, but to expect everyone to do that and expect them to be productive for all of that? People don't work that way. If you keep them working for 60+ hours they will goof off and break down from the stress.
If I was an employee there I would be moving on.
Its going to make the people who actually matter richer, who wouldn’t want to work themselves to exhaustion to achieve that?What get's me is "break your back to make yourself obsolete" mindset.
Man... It's an odd feeling when I work for a bloody bank and they keep reminding me to keep my work/life balance in good order.Its going to make the people who actually matter richer, who wouldn’t want to work themselves to exhaustion to achieve that?
The construction company I work for says that too, while they keep me on a thirteen on one off schedule for months.Man... It's an odd feeling when I work for a bloody bank and they keep reminding me to keep my work/life balance in good order.
Well, in my case at least, they actually mean it. 70/20/10 model is kept well alive, no overtime or working late unless you consider it absolutely necessary, etc. 25+2 days off per year, etc. Used to view that tech companies were the ones with a soul back when I was young but man has that view changed .The construction company I work for says that too, while they keep me on a thirteen on one off schedule for months.
Sounds like pure greed to me. Eh?You know, Google's motto used to be "Don't be evil".
But they changed that to the more nebulous "Do the right thing"
In this case, the right thing, according to Sergey, is apparently for employees to get back in the office and work 60+ hours a week to make him little richer.
Sounds like pure greed to me. Eh?
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