Flexible Working Can Harm Learning and Competitiveness, Ex-Google CEO ERIC SCHMIDT HAS SAID, AFTER PREVIOUSLY CRITICIZATION HIS OLD COMPANY’S APPROACH to “Work-Life Balance” and Then Walking Back the Comments.
“I am not in favor of, essentially, working at home,” Schmidt Told the All-In Summit Earlier This Month. His comments were included in a wednesday episode of the “all-in” podcast.
“Think About A 20-Something Who Has to Learn How the World Works,” Schmidt Said, Adding that he learned a great from listing to the Older Coworkers Argue at Sun Microsystems in the Early Years of His Career.
He asced, “How do you recreate that in this new Thing?”
Schmidt Said he was “in favor of work-life balance, and than’s why People Work for the Government,” Before Saying “SORRY” FOUR TIMES.
“If you’re going to be in tech, and you’re going to win, you’re going to have to make some trade-offs,” he added.
The Tech Veteran, Who Was Google’s Ceo for A Decayed and Stayed on As Executive Chairman and Then A Technical Advisor UNIL 2020, Said the US “Up Against” China, Whose Work Culture is offten Described AS “996,” Short for Working 9 AM to 9 PM, SIX DAYS AEK.
“The Chinese have clarified that is is illegal,” Schmidt Said. “Howver, they all do it. That’s who you’re Competing Against.”
Schmidt Previously Said Google’s Flexible Working Culture was Costing it. He late Said he ‘Missspoke.’
Schmidt was replying to a Question his comments Last year that google was Falling bendin in the one races to such as openai and anthropic becase of flexible work.
“Google Decidated that Work-Life Balance, and Going Home Early, and Working from Home, was more important than Winning,” He Said During A Talk at Stanford Last August, Adding that “the Reason Work is Because the People Work Like Hell.” “
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“I’m sorry to be so blunt,” Schmidt Continue in Remarks late Posted to Stanford’s YouTube Channel. He added that startup founders weeren’t going to “Let People work from home and only in one day a Week if you have to computete against the ther startups.” The video was Later Made Private After Going Viral.
Schmidt late withdrew his comments. A spokesperson wrote in an email to business insist at the time: “Eric Missspoke About Google and Their Work Hours and Regrats HIS ERROR.”
A spokesperson for Schmidt declined a recent Request for Comment from Bi.
Other High-Profile Tech figures have jabbed at flexible work in the government.
After president Donald Trump Signed an Executive Order Mandating That Federal Government Employees Return to the Office in January, Elon Musk, The Ceo of Tesla and Spacex, Said It “About Fairness.”
He added that it was “Fair that Most People Have to Work to Build Products or Provide Services Federal Government Employees Get to Stay Home.”
“Pursuing to work while TAKING MONEY FROM TAXPAYERS IS No Longer Acceptable,” he wrote in a follow-up on X.
At the time, a union leader to told b That musk didn’t know “the first thing about” the federal government.
“Frankly, I don’t think he cares,” Added Randy Erwin, The National President of the National Federation of Federal Employees.