From free message therapy and on-site gyms to alternating desk days with fellow Googlers
Google Cloud employees stateside are being asked to share a desk with a colleague in the latest cost curb as real estate is rationalized in line with efforts outlined by management, and mass redundancies is realized.
According to a memo dispatched this week, colleagues in Kirkland, Washington; New York City; San Francisco, Seattle; and Sunnyvale California were told about the change.. Staff will not be expected to sit at the same desk on the same day, Google added. “Through the matching process, they will agree on a basic desk setup and establish norms with the desk partner and team to ensure a positive experience in the new shared environment.
The desk share plan is being referred to by management as Cloud Office Evolution, “combining the best of pre-pandemic collaboration with the flexibility” of mixed working at home and in the office.to create of a business that lavished its employees with perks including on-site massage therapy, free meals and cookery classes, on-site gyms and much, much more.that it had hired in the early years of the pandemic and could no longer justify on the payroll, given the dramatic downturn in results.
For calendar 2022, Google parent Alphabet reported revenue of $282.8 billion, up 10 percent and markedly slower than the double digit growth posted in prior years. Net income plunged to $59.9 billion from $76 billion.
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