Google's CEO touts desk-sharing, says the office can feel like a 'ghost town' with many employees in the office just 2 days a week: CNBC
"To me, it's obvious that they are trying to be efficient and save money but at the same time also utilize resources," Pichai said at an all-hands meeting last week, CNBC reported citing an audio recording it obtained."There are people, by the way, who routinely complain that they come in and there are big swaths of empty desks and it feels like it's a ghost town — it's just not a nice experience.
The desk-sharing program had previously drawn criticism from some employees who taunted the"corpspeak" used while announcing the initiative, per the broadcaster.
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