"Google has decided that balancing work and personal life, and the ability to go home early and work from home, is more important than winning. But the reason why startups succeed is that people there work like hell," said Eric Schmidt, former chairman and CEO of Google, at a meeting with Stanford University students.
Ah, Eric, not you too... What strange conclusions.
After all, most startups don't succeed, and Google hasn't been a startup for about 20 years...
He goes on to say that we should work from the office, remote work is evil, and so on...
Yet before my eyes, a company of 200 people operates successfully and efficiently without any office at all.
I also know companies with 50 employees who barely make ends meet but still insist on going to the office.
It's not about size, it's about leadership. If at the helm is someone who knows how to work in new ways and assess the work of others, there are no problems.
Where people are used to "seeing with their eyes" their employees at their desks, where they can't imagine that working from home is even possible, there, of course, remote work, if it appeared, evaporated on its own.
That's why Eric can't handle it. Indeed, the age of managers is also important. He's turning 70 next year...
...Although, of course, size does matter. Entire corporations on remote work might not be a good idea... They are too large and slow, and this might ultimately knock them out of the game.