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Google's Sergey Brin Says Engineers Should Work 60-Hour Weeks in Office to Build AI That Could Replace Them


The Google co-founder says 60-hours a week is the productivity sweet spot for AI engineers.

Google co-founder Sergey Brin has told engineers that they should return to the office five days a week to help improve AI models that could replicate their work. The reclusive billionaire himself started returning to Mountain View following the launch of ChatGPT, which left Google on its back foot and raised concerns the company had fallen behind on a technology that had been developed within its own walls but capitalized upon by an outside competitor. Return-to-office has been a divisive issue not just in tech but across the entire global workforce, as corporate executives have sought to retake control from staff who were empowered during the pandemic.

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