Google's 'hypocritical' remote work policies anger employees

The idea that one day your team receives a mandate to (1) move across the country, and (2) take a 15%, wait no 25%, paycut... I thought the dream of working at google was high pay and white-gloves treatment. This doesn't seem very considerate of the employees at all.

So, from another Googler's perspective, I haven't felt like there's been much confusing messaging being sent out.

We got "You're coming back to the office on Sept. 1st" last year, and we got We're working on a request form for remote work" this year. The form went live late last month.

As someone who recently change positions during COVID, I despise not working from an office with my co-workers. Onboarding has been hell, and I feel like I'm not able to work at my best because I don't have the resources to do so.

Notably, Nooglers who onboard wouldn't have access to the on-site expertise from senior engineers if everyone was WFH.

I get the some people like WFH, and some other can onboard, but that's not everyone. Plus, free food is nice...

Hybrid working seems like the worst of both worlds. You get to need a working space in your home, so you need a bigger apartment if you're not single and especially if you have kids, and you can't just move to a lower COL suburb or exurb because you still need to commute half the time.

Sounds horrible. My preference? Either full remote or nothing.