Works or bursting: Google co -founder advocates for a day of 60 hours a week

Sergey Brinthe man who co -founded Google with Larry Page back in 1998, is not afraid of the marathon working hours and He also wants the employees of the Mountain View company to throw dead hours at work (And leave, therefore, totally parked your personal life).

In a controversial letter addressed to the employees of the Deepmind Division of Google (which has the focus on the increasingly in vogue) Brin has assured that «60 hours a week are the optimal point from the point of productivity». In that epistle, of which it has echoed The New York TimesBrin orders the employees of the section specialized in Google to work 60 hours a week (or those that are missing) with the last goal of winning the career of artificial intelligence, which has been greatly intensified in recent months and which have added “players” as the startup native of China Deepseek.

According to Brin, The competition in the AI ​​branch has intensified so much lately that Google employees are currently required that are currently consecrated to this technology. The goal? Reach as soon as possible the general artificial intelligence (AGI), the one that matches or exceeds human intelligence and in whose development a whole plethora of technology companies are currently engaged. Google’s co -founder believes that reaching the desired AGI is not only a possibility but an urgency.

Brin is actually disconnected from Google’s day -to -day management, but since it would hatch about two years ago, AI is increasingly involved in the direction of the company that co -founded 27 years ago. The reason why Brin’s figure has gained prominence lately in Google’s Brin fears that Google is eventually stripped of its supremacy in the technology industry if other companies take the lead to the Internet giant in the development of AI.

Sergey Brin also wants Google employees to return to the office

Working 60 hours a week is in any case only a guide that is not applicable everyone applicableMata Brin. Google’s co -founder admits that, if the company’s employees work even more hours, they run the risk of being at the mercy of “burnout” syndrome and lose their creativity. However, this rule does not apply to everyone, Brin insists. And there are people who are perfectly able to work more hours (although it is not necessarily arriving at 60 hours per week). In his opinion, Those employees who fulfill their workday to Rajataba are not only unproductive, but also contribute to reduce the morals of those around them.

Brin is also in favor of Google employees to return to the office (from Monday to Friday at least) and leave Teleworking behind. Currently the template of the American multinational enjoys a hybrid labor model and there are days when they work in person in the officia and others in which they do it remotely from home.

In the letter addressed to Google Brin workers, it is also. Brin refers to those products that arrive in the market provided with filters and prevent the end user from making certain decisions. In the case of the AI ​​that Google ended up reneating of this type of products, it would bring the company closer to the approach currently defended by Elon Musk and his company XAI, whose AI model, Grok, is necessary to be at the mercy of few or null filters.

As co -founders of Google Sergey Brin and Larry Parry are owners of the company’s largest actions, which means in practice that He still has power to influence the future of the multinational business.

DeepMindGoogle’s division whose employees Sergey Brin is directed in his letter, It was founded as an independent company in 2010 by Demis Hassabisawarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2024. Four years later, in 2014, the company was acquired by Google for an amount that would have oscillated between 400 and 500 million dollars.