“I recommend being in the office at least every weekday,” he wrote in a memo posted internally on Wednesday evening that was viewed by The New York Times. He added that “60 hours a week is the sweet spot of productivity” in the message to employees who work on Gemini, Google’s lineup of A.I. models and apps.
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“A number of folks work less than 60 hours and a small number put in the bare minimum to get by,” he wrote. “This last group is not only unproductive but also can be highly demoralizing to everyone else.”
Sergey Brin, who is worth $145 billion, thinks workers should come to the office on weekends, and work 60 hours a week as a “sweet spot”.
Where did he get this number from? (please don’t say something like his butt, genuinely curious here)
Is it because Googlers are supposed to be high performers who are highly motivated and well paid therefore can do the 60 hours without dipping in productivity?
How do they measure productivity at Google? surely it wouldn’t be lines of code written?
My response when managers at my work use the word “productivity” is, “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
Inconceivable!