Sergey Brin Urges Google Employees To Work Harder and In Office Daily
**Sergey Brin Urges Google Employees To Work Harder and In Office Daily**
By Erin Woo
6 hours ago
Google cofounder Sergey Brin urged employees working on the company's AI models and apps to return to the office "at least every weekday" and to work 60-hour weeks in order to win the race to artificial general intelligence, The New York Times reported on Thursday.
The message does not replace Google's official policy of in-office work three days per week, but it signals how senior Google veterans are calling on employees to work with more urgency as it competes with startup rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic. Last year, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt told a Stanford class that Google's work-life balance and remote work policy had put the company behind OpenAI, comments he later recanted. Brin has been more active at the company working on AI since OpenAI's launch of ChatGPT.
In his message this week, Brin also told employees to be more efficient by using Google's AI for coding and said that AI improving itself would lead to artificial general intelligence, according to The New York Times. Coding assistants have been a major priority for Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic. Last year, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said that more than a quarter of code at Google is now written by AI, and Google this week released a free version of its Code Assist product.