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According to news in the morning of June 14, Beijing time, when the COVID-19 epidemic gradually abated, Google was dismayed by the confusing message in the offline return to work policy. Now, Google employees have found more unsatisfactory problems.

Last week, Google updated its policy of returning to work under the antenna every Wednesday, including work card tracking rules and including attendance records in performance reviews. In addition, employees who have previously been granted telecommuting permits now need to be reassessed for this qualification.

According to revelations by some employees and posts on Google's internal website Memegen, Google employees are increasingly concerned that management pays too much attention to attendance records. Employees say they are treated by management as pupils. For employees who have been allowed to work remotely and have moved to other cities or even states, uncertainty is also growing in the future.

A highly liked post on Google's internal website joked: "if you can't go to the office today, you need your parents to provide a leave note." The post also included a PS picture of Fiona Cicconi, Google's head of human resources, standing in front of the school blackboard.

Another highly praised post wrote: "check my work, not me, work card."

Ryan Lamont, a Google spokesman, said in an email that work card's data were collected to "aggregate" to the company's leaders.

"We have now fully transitioned to a mixed work week, and company leaders can use reports to understand how their teams adopt a mixed work model." Google said in a statement. He added that Google did not include "separate work card data" in the report.

But internal documents show that Google's team leaders can find out who doesn't come to the office often.

"when we email non-telecommuting Google employees who have not been in the office for a long time (depending on local requirements), we also copy the email to their bosses so that they can provide support to Google employees," the document said. help them return to the office, or explore other flexible options. "

Last Friday, YouTube also held a staff meeting to explain the latest offline resumption policy. But at the event at that time, the company's executives demonstrated the plan in a virtual way-a contradiction that would obviously not be ignored.

Then someone used the character Leonard Hofstadt (Leonard Hofstadter) in the Big Bang Theory to make a meme that read: "what are you looking at? haven't you seen a hypocrite?"

As Google tries to get its employees back to work offline, internal discontent over the policies has also become the latest challenge for the company. Before the outbreak, Google was known for its vibrant campus, where employees could enjoy massages, yoga classes, video games and free food.

But times have changed, and the epidemic has led to the closure of offices and forced employees to work from home. Many Google employees have even moved to other cities, gradually adapted to a more flexible work mode, and can enjoy more family time with telecommuting programs.

During this period, technology companies boomed, Google's revenue soared and its share price triumphed. This is largely due to a series of cloud computing tools that can be used anytime, anywhere.

"thanks to great tools such as Google Workspace, we are able to work efficiently from home-especially in asynchronous work that requires deep attention." Sikoni wrote when he announced the latest mixed office policy last week.

Last April, Google began requiring most employees to come to the office three days a week. Prior to this, the company's offline resumption policy was intermittent due to the repetition of the COVID-19 epidemic.

However, because the number of people returning to the office is still small, and Google wants to cut costs, the company has begun to make some adjustments this year-some of which have even caused discontent. In February, for example, it was reported that Google's cloud computing division had told employees that it would adopt a shared workplace policy in the five largest offices in order to reduce office space.

Now, the company is equipped with lockers for employees to store their personal belongings in all office areas that use the shared workplace model.

Chris Schmidt, a Google software engineer and CWA member of the Alphabet workers' union, questioned why the company was so eager to ask employees to go back to work offline when their positions were limited.

"New York City employees don't even have enough desks and conference rooms for them to work comfortably." Schmidt said in an email.

Google is not the only tech giant struggling to find a suitable hybrid office path. Last month, thousands of Amazon employees went on strike, demanding that the company reconsider its offline work resumption policy three days a week. Salesforce reportedly promised to donate $10 a day to local charities for every additional offline employee. Meta recently said that starting in September, employees will have to return to the office at least three days a week.

Lamont said that Google's three-day work system has been in place for more than a year and is currently being updated.

"it's going well, and we want to see Google employees communicate and cooperate face-to-face, so only a few exceptions are allowed to work remotely," he said. "

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