Sergey Brin is urging employees working on AI to spend at least 60 hours per week in the office as Google faces heated competition from OpenAI, Meta, DeepSeek and others.
Brin believes that, with the right resources, the company can win the AI race, but that means workers are being urged not only to return to the office but to consider doing longer 60-hour weeks (which works out to be 12 hours a day over five days).
Sergey Brin suggested Google employees work about 60 hours a week. Yet, experts warn longer hours could harm productivity and lead to burnout.
According to the memo seen by The New York Times, Brin says Googlers should try to work 60 hours per week to support the company's AI efforts. That works out to 12 hours per day, Monday through Friday,
Sergey Brin, Google's co-founder, is driving a 60-hour workweek to win the AGI race, a journey rooted in his escape from Russia and rise to billionaire status.
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has told engineers at the tech giant that they should return to the office five days a week to help improve AI models that could ultimately replicate their work.
Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, is urging employees to work 60-hour weeks on developing Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Brin's journey from Russia to the U.S. and his academic achievements at Stanford,
In an internal memo seen by the New York Times, the Google cofounder told employees working on Gemini, which develops the company's suite of AI products, that he recommends being in the office "at least every weekday" and that "60 hours a week is the sweet spot of productivity."
Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, has sparked discussions within the company regarding work hours and productivity in the race to achieve Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). In an internal memo, Brin suggested that increasing work hours could significantly enhance the chances of realizing AGI.
The tech giant’s co-founder said that if employees worked harder and were in the office more, the company could reach an artificial general intelligence breakthrough.
Sergey Brin urges Alphabet employees to work 60-hour weeks to accelerate Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) development.
Brin called for Googlers working on the company's AI products to increase their hours in a memo seen by The New York Times.