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When a Googling When an employee asked the company if he could organize his work schedule so he could work fewer hours on more days, a human resources representative said the average Google employee works more than a typical 9-to-5 workday. appears to refute previous reports that Googlers have a light workload.
“Most paid Googlers already work more than 8 hours a day on the days they work,” the HR representative for Google’s People Operations team wrote in response to the employee, in a message viewed by CNBC . “No one is 120% FTE [Full Time Employee] for a normal FT job at Google, so working a compressed 100% schedule isn’t really realistic.”
The memo also states that the company will allow employees to request schedules that are 60% or 80% of full-time time.
The HR representative’s confirmation that employees typically work long hours left some employees eager to share that information with their friends and family members, according to internal message boards.
Over the summer, multiple publications reportedly interviewed a Google software engineer making six figures who said he spent an hour a day coding in the morning and devoted the rest of his shifts to his startup. Those reports of a one-hour workday went viral, including among friends and family of Google employees.
One meme, shared by a Google employee on Memegen, suggested that the employee wanted to share the HR representative’s thoughts with “snarky family members” who had referenced the one-hour workday reports. More than 100 employees ‘liked’ it.
In a statement to CNBC, Google spokesperson Courtenay Mencini said Googlers can request more flexible schedules and requests will be assessed based on their roles and teams.
“As with any business, there are times when our employees work more than 40 hours per week to meet deadlines, support teammates or deliver products and services to our users,” Mencini said.
The company reiterated that it is considering approving 60% and 80% of full-time schedules, as well as other variations of part-time work, based on employee circumstances and manager approval. However, according to Google, compressed work weeks are not as flexible or compatible with overall team schedules as the other options the company offers.
Google employees have faced public backlash over recruitment tactics such as extended company benefits, which have largely been used by tech companies to recruit talent over the past two decades. However, 2023 marked a change in the industry, as economic headwinds and labor shifts led to some of those same companies deciding to roll back some benefits.
