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Eric Schmidt said people have to make tradeoffs to succeed in tech.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n

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Flexible work, with days spent working from home, needs to be eliminated, says Google\u2019s former CEO Eric Schmidt.<\/p>\n

Schmidt spoke on an episode of the \u201cAll-In\u201d podcast, which aired on Wednesday. In the episode, Schmidt said that he was \u201cnot in favor of, essentially, working at home,\u201d because it inhibits learning in junior employees.<\/p>\n

He mentioned that he learned from \u201celder people\u201d while he was working at Sun Microsystems, a computer manufacturer purchased by Oracle in 2010 for $7.4 billion, by being in the office and listening to conversations. Schmidt worked at Sun from 1983 to 1997, rising from a software manager role to become vice president of the Sun General Systems Group.<\/p>\n

Related: <\/b>Google Cofounder Sergey Brin Thinks Gemini Employees Should Be Working \u201960 Hours\u2019 a Week (and Not Remotely), According to a Leaked Internal Memo<\/p>\n

\u201cThink about a 20-something who has to learn how the world works,\u201d Schmidt said on the podcast. \u201cWhen I think about how much I learned when I was at Sun, just listening to these elder people who were five or 10 years older than I was, argue with each other, in person, how do you recreate that in this new thing?\u201d<\/p>\n

Though Schmidt said he was \u201cin favor of work-life balance,\u201d he mentioned that tech workers have to make \u201csome tradeoffs\u201d between the two in order to succeed.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you\u2019re going to be in tech, and you\u2019re going to win, you\u2019re going to have to make some tradeoffs,\u201d Schmidt said.<\/p>\n

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Photo by Shahar Azran\/Getty Images<\/i><\/sup><\/p>\n

Schmidt was CEO of Google for a decade, from 2001 to 2011. Last year, he said at a Stanford University talk that Google fell behind in the AI race due to remote work policies for its staff. Google allows employees to work from home two days a week.<\/p>\n

Related: <\/b>This Big Tech CEO Just Became a Billionaire for the First Time<\/p>\n

\u201cGoogle decided that work-life balance and going home early and working from home was more important than winning,\u201d Schmidt said at the time. \u201cThe reason startups work is because the people work like hell.\u201d<\/p>\n

Schmidt later walked back his remarks, saying he \u201cmisspoke.\u201d<\/p>\n

Companies like Amazon, JPMorgan, and AT&T have enforced strict return-to-office mandates this year, requiring staff to work from the office five days a week. The initiatives have met with pushback, as employees protested the impact on work-life balance, but have since been implemented.<\/p>\n

Related:<\/b> \u2018I Don\u2019t Care How Many People Sign\u2019: JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon Fires Back at Employees Who Signed a \u2018F\u2014ing Petition\u2019 Calling for Hybrid Work<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Flexible work, with days spent working from home, needs to be eliminated, says Google\u2019s former CEO Eric Schmidt.<\/p>\n

Schmidt spoke on an episode of the \u201cAll-In\u201d podcast, which aired on Wednesday. In the episode, Schmidt said that he was \u201cnot in favor of, essentially, working at home,\u201d because it inhibits learning in junior employees.<\/p>\n

He mentioned that he learned from \u201celder people\u201d while he was working at Sun Microsystems, a computer manufacturer purchased by Oracle in 2010 for $7.4 billion, by being in the office and listening to conversations. Schmidt worked at Sun from 1983 to 1997, rising from a software manager role to become vice president of the Sun General Systems Group.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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