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Video of Eric Schmidt blaming remote work for Google’s woes mysteriously vanishes (techcrunch.com)
submitted 4 months ago by informapirata to c/technology
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Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who has since moved on to greener and perhaps more dangerous pastures, told an audience of Stanford students recently that “Google decided that work-life balance and going home early and working from home was more important than winning.” Evidently this hot take was not for wider consumption, as Stanford — which posted the video this week on YouTube — today made the video of the event private.

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[–] Diplomjodler3 139 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Of course, of course. It can't possibly have been management infighting, lack of direction and destructive short term greed. No, it was people wanting to see their kids that are to blame.

[–] SlopppyEngineer 48 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The suits have taken over and are cannibalizing the current portfolio. Search is being transformed into a large AI powered advertisement billboard to pump up the profit. Now they're all surprised search is less used and realize that search is the gateway to their other services. And the management blame storm begins.

[–] Diplomjodler3 40 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If only people had worked more unpaid overtime, none of this would had happened.

[–] SlopppyEngineer 15 points 4 months ago

none of this would had happened as fast

They always forget that part. Stupid executive decisions will still bring everything down.