Google's Sergey Brin Urges Workers To the Office at Least Every Weekday

Google co-founder Sergey Brin has urged employees working on the company's Gemini AI products to be in the office 'at least every weekday' [non-paywalled source] and suggested '60 hours a week is the sweet spot of productivity,' according to an internal memo cited by The New York Times. The directive comes as Brin warned that 'competition has accelerated immensely and the final race to A.G.I. is afoot,' referring to artificial general intelligence, when machines match or surpass human intelligence.

'I think we have all the ingredients to win this race, but we are going to have to turbocharge our efforts,' Brin wrote in the Wednesday evening memo. The guidance does not alter Google's official policy requiring employees to work in-office three days weekly. Brin, who returned to Google following ChatGPT's 2022 launch, also criticized staff who 'put in the bare minimum,' calling them 'highly demoralizing to everyone else.'

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