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Sundar Pichai says that Google employees must meet to complete growth plans in physical space
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- In an interview, Sundar Pichai will talk about different subjects.
- Pichai addressed the pandemic response from Google, WFH community, touch monitoring and much more.
- Google CEO says employees must join forces in order to plan for growth.
It was definitely a word on the street for all employees as the two tech giants Facebook and Google announced remote-working strategies throughout 2020. We are not aware how coronavirus crunch will lead, but indeed, brands still concentrate on home-based work culture.
Sundar Pichai was asked the same question in an interview with Wired, Google's CEO and Alphabet. As in, how Google adapts to the WFH paradigm of this kind. In reaction to the question, Pichai says, "Once we realized that it was going to be bigger than everyone expected, two brief thoughts.
We needed to move the business from home as early as we could to a distributed, global task. Second, Google and Alphabet have been developed in several ways at this time. We are here to educate people and support them at times when they need assistance. Thus, our goods and services were important to us, but we also know the support that we can give to communities and institutions.
Just to remind you, Google has added updates in order that the work from home is a better experience for its customers. Google Meet customers can now only sign into their Gmail accounts for video meetings.
Pichai also thinks that before this worldwide pandemic we can never return to the normal state in which we have been living. He said, "I think we're going to adapt to each other, but I am still too early to say how much. At first, I 'm happy that some of it works well but it is based on the simple premise that everybody knows each other and that we already have the daily contact with each other.
We will do research, investigate, learn from the results, learn what's going on.
Nonetheless, in order to meet the company's growth ambitions, Pichai says that in all the cases they would need physical spaces for getting people together. Even though there is a correction of course I do not assume that the problem would be our current footprint. I 'm sure that we're going to use it and that some of the things I'm excited to see are finished.
The two firms met and shared their networking technologies with the health system, which will help counter COVID-19. Another topic was the partnership between Google and Apple.
Pichai says, "Both teams independently had begun working on technology to support health agencies in their job tracking. Very quickly both sides realized that it had to be available everywhere for this to work well. Engineering teams across Android and iOS had thus organically started reaching.
We have recognized that we need to give actual users privacy assurances. I feel that we have found the right balance. Even if only 10-20% of users want to do so, this is going to have a significant, meaningfully meaningful impact. "More, better."
