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RÉVEIL-MATIN. Google is taking another step to discourage people from working from home: Presence in the office will now be part of the criteria for evaluating their performance. reveals the Wall Street Journal.

In a statement sent to its employees on Wednesday, and seen by various American media outlets, we learn that the company will monitor the comings and goings of its employees by checking their access card usage. The measure will be implemented initially in the United States and should subsequently be implemented elsewhere in the world, where local legislation allows. reports CNBC.

Recalcitrant people who prefer to work from home more will receive a warning message from their manager. If the behavior persists, there could likely be consequences.

Since April 2023, the California giant’s hybrid work policy has required every employee to report to the office at least three times a week, a policy respected by the vast majority, according to senior human resources manager Fiona Cicconi.

His goal now, according to CNBC, is to double the proportion of people who show up. She is even urging teleworkers who have been granted an exemption and who live near one of her offices to adopt a hybrid working mode. In her opinion, this is where they would “feel the strongest connection to the Google community”.

And if they don’t change their minds, these telecommuters could well be the first to be thanked when the company changes requirements or undergoes a reorganization, if we trust another piece of news CNBC was able to share.

Based on data collected through her internal surveys, Fiona Cicconi writes that by complying with labor policies, members of the organization feel a stronger sense of belonging. This is amplified when the employee works with colleagues who are also physically present at the workplace, she says.

The company has been unable to find an alternative that offers the same significant benefits as face-to-face work. Without this closeness between employees, all of the innovations presented at the last developer conference might not have happened, believes Fiona Cicconi, because many of them “were designed, developed and built by teams working side by side”.

That doesn’t mean Google is signing the death sentence on telecommuting. She wants to continue combining the benefits of remote work with in-person presence. In rare exceptional cases, it can even happen that some people still ask to work exclusively from home, the manager nuances.

Traveling to the office is also discouraged when the weather conditions are unfavorable, for example because a dense cloud of smog has affected air quality in Canada and the eastern United States.