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While tech firms such as Microsoft and Twitter have announced plans to allow employees to work from home permanently, Google has resisted going fully remote, and employees said there's an increasing sense of frustration among a faction of the workforce.
Over the past few months, CEO Sundar Pichai has made other hints that Google is considering a flexible setup when employees return. Since then, questions about remote work have been continually put to leadership, said employees and internal materials viewed by Insider.
"Almost every TGIF or area all-hands, the question gets asked," one employee said.
It's an interesting turn of events for a company so instrumental in creating Silicon Valley's cushy workplace trend, where campuses brim with free-to-eat restaurants, laundry service, volleyball courts and massage therapists.
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As we learned in Google's blowout Q1 results, having employees work from home saves a lot of money. Google reduced its spending on travel, entertainment and other expenses by $268 million in Q1 as a result of COVID-19.
And while Google's interactions with employees about the future workplace has been bumpy, the company is apparently on the ball when it comes to the technical aspects of a hybrid workforce.
The trial begins Monday in federal court in Oakland, CA. Among the people expected to take the stand are Apple CEO Tim Cook, software boss Craig Federighi (also known as Hair Force One) and Epic CEO Tim Sweeney.
The stakes are high for Apple, which could potentially lose at least some of its control over the closed iPhone platform, as well as for the broader tech landscape, where the power of platforms from Google to Amazon are being questioned.
Indeed, Epic's case against Apple got an extra boost on Friday when the European Commission issued a preliminary ruling that Apple's conduct in music streaming business - Apple operates its own Apple Music service and manages the App Store platform that competitors like Spotify must use - is an unfair competitive advantage.
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"We've had production stop because of a USB cable. At one point, for Model S, we literally raided every electronics store in the Bay Area. For a few days there, nobody could buy a USB cable in the Bay Area because we went and bought them all to put them in the car."
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