Memo: Sergey Brin says Google could reach AGI if employees worked harder and were in the office more, saying “60 hours a week is the sweet spot of productivity”
The tech giant's co-founder said that if employees worked harder and were in the office more …
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@edzitron.com
Ed Zitron
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My man what year do you remember that Sergey lol [embedded post]
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@carnage4life
Dare Obasanjo
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“I recommend being in the office at least every weekday...60 hours a week is the sweet spot of productivity” - Sergey Brin — Quite the vibe shift from tech employees asking about four-day workweeks.
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@feliciahart
@feliciahart
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Scientifically that's NOT remotely the sweet spot. In fact it's actually unproductive to work more than 50 hours. If these morons actually wanted maximum productivity they'd drop everyone to 30-35 hours per week max. But then bosses would be real lonely and purposeless without…
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@marie-smith
@marie-smith
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I'm retired. I routinely worked 60 hours per week. My advice. “Don't work 60 hours per week.”
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@evilgalprods
Mere Smith
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12 hours a day???? boy fuck you we have lives [embedded post]
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@siobhanmcelduff
Siobhán McElduff
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‘work yourself to death so you can produce a crappy product that will make me money and put you out of a job!’ [embedded post]
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@mglivetotape
Michael H. Ghoulman
on bluesky
You can easily find out how wrong he is using Google Scholar scholar.google.com/scholar?hl= e...
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@kawaiiguy.com
KawaiiGuy
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I'll take “Burnout Inevitable” for 500, Alex. [embedded post]
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@maxomai
@maxomai
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There are several unwarranted assumptions in Sergey Brin's statements here. I'll point out only two. — 1) 60h/wk is way above the actual sweet spot of productivity. — 2) There is nothing to suggest that we are anywhere near close to real AGI. We have many impressive results…
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@chaykak
Kyle Chayka
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“we need you to be physically present in the office more so that we can finish building an artificial general intelligence that will automate all of humanity” [embedded post]
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@jack.allnutt.net
Jack Allnutt
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lmao, they'll try anything won't they? [embedded post]
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@scienceintheend
@scienceintheend
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Not just inhumane, that's completely wrong. — Tired employees make far more mistakes and have lower overall work quality. — In blue collar positions tired workers have far more accidents. — This is just a reiteration of the disposable worker mantra.
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@clawful1
@clawful1
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“Work harder so I can fire you sooner”
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@leslieica
@leslieica
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Really? — Please...feels like someone who never managed people before. [embedded post]
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@daniloc.xyz
Danilo
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How many hours a week did the Google Plus team put in [embedded post]
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@spatiala
@spatiala
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What freaking jerk.. we are people first.. not productivity machines
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@jackazzopardi
Rachel Reeves' Stunning Weave
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“I could build a pyramid if I had slaves” [embedded post]
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@mbkplus
Mike Boylan-Kolchin
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I've worked 60 hours some weeks. It's essentially always when I've made a breakthrough in my work, & when you're on a roll, you keep it going. But that can't be the norm, it only works as a punctuation of *much* longer periods of sustained, lower-level effort. Anyone telling y…
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@canadensis
Brad Weldon
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And in return for this dedication Sergey promises to lay you off as soon as you can be replaced by AI — To gain ground in the AI race “Google's Sergey Brin Urges Workers to the Office ‘at Least’ Every Weekday”
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@trevorabranch
Trevor A. Branch
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I'd never thought of Google as being a feudal system, but here we are: 60 hr of work per week is expected — www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/t...
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@kateconger.com
Kate Conger
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“you must work in the office at least every weekday” says man who was lowkey on vacation for a decade www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/t...
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@thurrott
Paul Thurrott
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Employee: I see. What do we get for killing ourselves in that fashion? Brin: We'll fire you because AI can do your job.
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@alexeheath
Alex Heath
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here's Google co-founder Sergey Brin's full note to the AI org saying that they need to stop building “nanny products” and work 60 hours a week https://www.theverge.com/...
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@cramforce
Malte Ubl
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Google's key weakness when I was there was lack of intensity. It's hard to escape from that as a large organization. In fact, to get from weak to normal you have to massively oversteer. Glad to see the company at least trying https://www.nytimes.com/... [image]
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@jessicalessin
Jessica Lessin
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Anyone have a prediction of when a leader “recommending” people work in the office on a work day won't be considered worthy of a headline in the New York Times? His comments overall, including on AGI, were totally worth reporting. A sign of the times/Times that the news they le…
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@ajs
Alyson Shontell
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This is actually true: Sergey Brin to Google AI engineers - doing the bare minimum at work is demoralizing to your peers https://fortune.com/...
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“I recommend being in the office at least every weekday,” Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, wrote in a memo. He added that “60 hours a week is the sweet spot of productivity.”