While the company, along with other tech giants like Microsoft,
built tools that have made remote work efficient and quick,
it appears that the companies themselves are giving up on the "work-from-anywhere" dream that was once pitched as permanent when the Covid-19 pandemic hit
A new Google notice encourages employees to come to office at least thrice a week. Those who choose not to do this could face the music during their performance reviews, the company added.
For those who are remote and who live near a Google office, we hope you’ll consider switching to a hybrid work schedule.
Our offices are where you’ll be most connected to Google’s community," Google's chief people officer Fiona Cicconi wrote in an internal memo.
The memo added that "going forward, [Google will] consider new remote work requests by exception only