Is it possible to work in a super powerful company like Google, earn thousands of dollars a year and spend just a few minutes each day doing that work? an engineer from software hired by that company, he assured that he does it that way. Speaking to fortunethis man – who naturally remains anonymous – said that very few tasks are asked of him and that he dedicates most of his working day to a startup own.
The unusual story of the Google engineer who works less than an hour a day
The aforementioned publication shares little information about the employee of the American technology company. One of them is part of the Generation Z, the group that is less than 26 years old. Other: he is an engineer software and specializes in writing code for various Google services. Anything else: earns $150,000 a year.
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In addition to that information, the key fact is that the boy spends less than an hour a day on tasks at Google. As he commented, he wakes up around 9 in the morning and after a relaxed breakfast he solves the requests of that firm that hires him. Before approximately 11 in the morning, he has closed his daily work for the search giant.
However, the young engineer is not a lazy person who feels comfortable in a day at pure leisure. According to the report, he continues to work into the night on his own project. How do you know if this story is real? fortune He points out that he accessed screenshots that confirm the story of the programming professional.
“I wanted something where I had a lot more time to myself, so I turned to Google”said the professional, more focused on his company than on the tasks of that gigantic company. On the other hand, it shortcut noting that although he dedicates few hours to this job, he succeeds because he has the ability to quickly and efficiently solve the problems that arise.
A repeated story in the technology industry
Realities like those of the Google engineer, who dedicates a small portion of his labor effort to that company, is partly surprising. However, it is not the first time that we hear of stories like this. Recently, Former employees of Meta (formerly Facebook) confessed that after being hired they spent long hours with nothing to do.
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How can this phenomenon be explained? According to what they said, the plan is simply to keep the talent of the competition. It doesn’t matter if they add up internally or not, as long as those workers don’t contribute to rival firms. There are more possible explanations. One of these is the practice known as “penning”, which consists of accumulating employees in times prior to projected growth, hiring before they are really necessary.
For the rest, a survey carried out in 2021 in the anonymous forum Blind, which collects the site Genbetaconcluded that one in three employees in the technology sector works less than half of their working day.