Sergey Brin is urging employees working on AI to spend at least 60 hours per week in the office as Google faces heated competition from OpenAI, Meta, DeepSeek and others.
Brin believes that, with the right resources, the company can win the AI race, but that means workers are being urged not only to return to the office but to consider doing longer 60-hour weeks (which works out to be 12 hours a day over five days).
Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, has sparked discussions within the company regarding work hours and productivity in the race to achieve Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). In an internal memo, Brin suggested that increasing work hours could significantly enhance the chances of realizing AGI.
According to the memo seen by The New York Times, Brin says Googlers should try to work 60 hours per week to support the company's AI efforts. That works out to 12 hours per day, Monday through Friday,
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has told engineers at the tech giant that they should return to the office five days a week to help improve AI models that could ultimately replicate their work.
Sergey Brin suggested Google's AI-focused employees work about 60 hours weekly for increased productivity.Workplace experts argue longer hours can reduce productivity due to errors and decreased motivation.
But now that the tech giant is the No. 5 biggest company in the world (as of press time), the bosses want employees at their desks, not carports. In a memo viewed by The New York Times and posted internally to employees working on Google's Gemini AI,
The tech giant’s co-founder said that if employees worked harder and were in the office more, the company could reach an artificial general intelligence breakthrough.
Google co-founder Sergey Brin sent a memo to employees this week urging them to return to the office "at least every weekday" in order to help the company
Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, is urging employees to work 60-hour weeks on developing Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Brin's journey from Russia to the U.S. and his academic achievements at Stanford,