Google Union Pushes Back on Three-Day Return-to-Office Mandate

Alphabet Workers Union issues statement seeking voice in policies

Google's Bay View campus in Mountain View, California.

Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
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Google employees are pushing back against the tech giant’s mandate that staffers spend at least three days a week in the office.

“Overnight, workers’ professionalism has been disregarded in favor of ambiguous attendance tracking practices tied to our performance evaluations,” Chris Schmidt, a Google software engineer, said Thursday in a statement released by the Alphabet Workers Union, which represents some contract and direct employees at Google.