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Eric Schmidt’s car crash Stanford interview showed big tech’s true colors on remote work
Big tech bigwigs just can’t come to terms with remote work – RTO mandates and battles with staff could be their undoing
While Schmidt has since backtracked on his comments, they nonetheless point toward an antiquated view of remote working culture that seems pervasive among both the old guard of Silicon Valley and a host of major organizations. The horse has well and truly bolted on strict in-office attendance – the pandemic saw to that – yet so many big tech firms are slugging it out in a war of attrition with staff to claw them back on-site. With such a small number of companies mandating full in-person attendance, one has to wonder whether the tantrums thrown by some industry execs are less about creating a productive, collaborative, and innovative workforce and more about maintaining the status-quo they were forced to conform to in their heyday.
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