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Video of Eric Schmidt blaming remote work for Google’s woes mysteriously vanishes (techcrunch.com)
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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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[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 71 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

If he has time to complain about other people, then he is probably not essential to the operation. Maybe he should be fired instead.

[–] Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world 60 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

He retired from his role at Google a few years ago so yeah…

But he is still a typical C-Suite asshole. Blame workers for strategic corporate failures (Googles competition all offer WFH) and take personal credit (and bonuses) for any and all successes.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 28 points 3 months ago

Also taking huge salaries, bonuses and golden parachutes for any failures, while employees pay the price and you brag about being the one who takes all the risks.

[–] bitwaba@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

He's far from a typical C-suite.

He's decided to use his 25 billion to create a startup for AI powered zero-coms suicide attack drones.

That's not normal.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

He's retired, hasn't been involved with Google for years. He's just insanely rich, and still holds billions in Google shares.