“We’ve baked too many muffins on a Monday, seen GBuses run with just one passenger, and offered yoga classes on a Friday afternoon when folks are more likely to be working from home.”
Google cut 12,000 jobs in January and declined to pay out the rest of laid-off employees’ maternity and medical leaves. Now non-engineers get a Chromebook by default and need director approval for any accessory over $1,000. Ruth Porat’s email names AI as the “incredible investment opportunity” the savings are for. The staplers are paying for the GPUs.