The real reason Google employees are back in the office

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Google allowed employees to work remotely from January 2021. It was not until April 2022 that the company required employees to return to the office at least 3 days a week.

Fear of job loss drives tech workers back to the office. (Photo: New York Post)

Despite the familiarity and love of working remotely, people are increasingly returning to the office because of concerns about layoffs, according to one Google employee. Employees in New York are essentially back.

While Google doesn’t disclose its office occupancy numbers, employees in New York said the space was largely empty until a few months ago, after Google laid off 12,000 workers. “I think the layoffs scared people,” said another Google employee.

The world's largest Internet search engine is set to open a $2.1 billion office in Hudson River in August, spanning 288,000 square meters.

San Francisco is also seeing a wave of people returning to the office. One Salesforce employee, who was supposed to be in the office three days a week last year, only started doing so last month, when he was “shocked” by the layoffs.

Office occupancy rates are slowly rising, according to data from Kastle Systems. Last week, office occupancy in New York averaged 47%, up more than 10 percentage points from the same week in 2022. In San Francisco, it was 44%, up from 33% a year ago. The numbers are even higher at companies like Google, suggesting people are doing whatever it takes to keep their jobs.

(According to New York Post)

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