Google is saving $1B per year as a result of employees working from home
Google could 'save' even more by firing all its employees and selling all its assets. Expenses are there for a reason; they are investments that earn a return. If you cut the expense, merely to 'save', you are ignorant of a fundamental of business. A similar argument is made about taxes: they are described as only expenses when the issue should be discussed as investments (i.e., 'is the return high enough on this investment of our collective money?').If these expenses were so obviously unproductive, Google would have cut them already.