This is a bullshit piece to demonize remote work.

Also this “fake work” narrative, that’s what salary is: you get paid a flat rate to do what it takes to get the job done. Some days that means 12 hours, some days it means less. If this Devon guy is even real and not “an anonymous source” it’s his boss and ultimately the company’s fault that they are so clueless how to run their business that someone can work an hour a day and still not get noticed.

These are the immoral fuckers creating a bad rep for remote work and giving managers concrete examples to generalize and back their claims.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Software engineers at Google can make a base salary of up to $718,000 a year — and one says he is earning six figures working approximately five hours a week.

Devon, a Google software engineer in his 20s, told Fortune that he works for the tech giant for approximately one hour daily while earning a $150,000 salary.

The outlet said it viewed the engineer’s Google offer letter verifying his salary, and reviewed screenshots detailing his startup work throughout his workday.

Jason, a 22-year-old, previously told Insider he worked two full-time remote software engineering jobs for no more than 30 hours a week to increase his income.

Tech giants went on hiring sprees during the pandemic in pursuit of what Keith Rabois, a Silicon Valley investor, calls the “vanity metric” of headcount, where employers expand their workforce in an attempt to stand out among their rivals.

When he interned at Google prior to his current role, he said he worked “probably under two hours a day,” which freed up time to take a weeklong hush trip to Hawaii while on-the-job.

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