Google doesn’t want employees working remotely anymore
It&#x27;s a pain when someone in my teams meetings is in the office because of all the noise in the background.  This makes me laugh because it&#x27;s clear that there&#x27;s a lot of distraction going on there.<p>&quot;Communication&quot; can also mean getting distracted or drawn into irrelevant discussion or being continuously interrupted by people wanting something.<p>I think it&#x27;s quite ridiculous to claim to value personal presence in an age where I&#x27;m working with people all day who are in other countries and other offices - even down the hall - and that&#x27;s all happening by chat and email and teams meetings.   I really think it&#x27;s about the way some people manage lazily by looking to see if you&#x27;re typing or not instead of looking at results and understanding the work.<p>It&#x27;s nice to meet people in person once or twice but I don&#x27;t need to see any of them once a week or once a month.<p>I only manage 3 people but I have to work with a lot of people to get things done and have to understand their personalities and points of view and what they&#x27;re doing up to a point. I can&#x27;t come up with a reason why I would want to be able to look over their shoulder.