Google reportedly plans to crack down on employees who haven’t been coming into its offices consistently. According to a report in CNBC.Google company has updated its hybrid work policy and it includes tracking office badge attendance, confronting workers who aren’t coming in when they’re supposed to and including the attendance in employees’ performance reviews.
Fiona Cicconi, wrote an email to employees recently which included doubling down on office attendance, reasoning that “there’s just no substitute for coming together in person.” These policy updates show the company’s most stringent attempt to bring employees back into physical offices. Here are key highlights from the email.
The note said the company will start including their three days per week as a part of their performance reviews and teams will start sending reminders to workers “who are consistently absent from the office.
The company will periodically track whether employees are adhering to the office attendance policy using badge data in the US. The company’s executives are currently reviewing local requirements to implement this policy in other countries, as per another document. If workers don’t follow the policy after an extended period of time, human resources will reach out about “next steps.” Google, however, clarified that the badge data viewed by company leaders is aggregate data and not individualized.
In a statement to CNBC, Google spokesperson Ryan Lamont said, “Our hybrid approach is designed to incorporate the best of being together in person with the benefits of working from home for part of the week. Now that we’re more than a year into this way of working, we’re formally integrating this approach into all of our workplace policies.”
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