Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt said that remote work has negative effects on Google’s competitiveness in the field of Artificial Intelligence.
Schmidt announced that he retracted his criticisms.
Schmidt claimed that Google was losing ground in the AI race due to remote working. The former CEO has since retracted his claim and apologized to the company. He said he regretted his comments, stating that they were wrong.
Schmidt, who left Google’s parent company Alphabet more than five years ago, made the comments during a discussion at Stanford University.
The video containing these statements was removed from YouTube upon Schmidt’s request after being viewed more than 40,000 times.
Google defended its hybrid work policy, which requires coming to work three days a week, after Schmidt’s criticism.
Elon Musk and Jamie Dimon also argued that remote working affects competitiveness.
The Alphabet Workers Union claimed that Google’s problems were caused by a lack of staff, not remote working.
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