With the development of artificial intelligence, many IT organizations are trending away from remote labor.

Several Google workers' rights to work from home are in jeopardy as the business aims to implement a rigorous hybrid work paradigm. Employees who refuse to follow the new policy, which mandates that they report to the closest Google office three times each week, might lose their employment.

According to certain internal papers obtained by CNBC, some workers of specific Google divisions and units have been requested to return to the office three times each week, even though some of them had previously been authorized to work from home.

With the growth of artificial intelligence, a number of IT companies—who were among the first to adopt remote working when COVID struck back in 2020—are trending away from it. According to the article, if they didn't switch back to a hybrid work arrangement, some remote workers were given the same option as certain full-time Google employees in the US who were offered voluntary buyouts earlier this year.

With widespread layoffs in 2023, Google started its cost-cutting trend, which is still going strong as the firm turns its attention to its artificial intelligence initiatives. According to a CNBC article that cited a document, Google AI employees were instructed in February of this year to be in the office every weekday and to define 60 hours a week as the sweet spot of productivity in order to stay competitive.

According to Google spokesman Courtenay Mencini, the decision to return to the office from an entirely remote work arrangement is determined by individual teams based on their requirements and is not a corporate policy.