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If they were getting 25% less done, and had the data, they should have referenced that.

My guess is that given that Marissa is so data driven (to a fault - eg. the thousand shades of blue on the Google ad links as an example) that if she had had this data she would have shared it.

No, its obvious to me that this was a "we did it like this at Google and Google was successful" move without data.

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Would you share the info? Consider: this is the sort of decision that people leave companies over, possibly in significant numbers. You put "people who were teleworking at Yahoo were 25% less productive" in the news, and that stands to poison the employment prospects of some number of them, whether or not it's true of any particular person. They, in turn, could come back and sue you over that.

Would that happen? I don't know. But I'd call it a safe bet that the lawyers are afraid of it. They could be driving a decision not to share data.

There's absolutely no reason to share internal data unless you have to.

No, its obvious to me that this was a "we did it like this at Google and Google was successful" move without data

Gourmet chefs in the company restaurant, free massages and 25% pay raises for everyone? Fair deal (if working at the office is practically an option).

The massages were not free. They were $80/hour plus tip. Or you could sometimes find 2-hour user studies to participate in that would give you a massage coupon, but it still required a $20 tip.

I have gourmet food at home and make as much as I did at Google. Plus none of that matters to me nearly as much as my health and not having to sit at a random office 5 days a week.

Does Google not allow remote working?

Google is vehement about not forbidding remote work, at least during the hiring / interview process.

(That's part of why I ended up at Mozilla. No two of my immediate teammates even live in the same state at the moment.)

I'm having trouble parsing your statement: mistaken double-negative?

(I'll delete this comment if your wording is clarified via in-place edit...)

Gah, I edited from "not allowing" to "forbidding," but missed the "not." Oops! Thanks for the heads up. In summary: Google does not allow remote work.

It's team-dependent. Some teams don't allow it, others only 1-3 days a week, and others allow complete remote. In general though, you are unlikely to be allowed to unless you've been there a while.

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