Recently, Google Singapore announced its latest office spotlight in their Inside Google Blog, while shared spaces and a close-knit community will be the new working environment for Googlers to work enjoyably and flexibly based on their hybrid approach to work policy.
Table of Contents
What you should know
- A hybrid approach to work is the main focus of Google Singapore
- Flexibility is the key factor now to retaining your talents
Google’s Hybrid approach
Google first opened a Singapore office in 2007 — a tiny space in the business district — before moving to a new, purpose-built space in 2016. Singapore is now their Asia Pacific headquarters, located at the center of Asia’s vibrant digital economy, and home to more than 2,000 Googlers.
Recently, Google has announced its hybrid approach to work policy, which would like to provide enough flexibility and choice to their employees once they are able to return to our offices globally.
In their announcement, they stated serval key principles that are worth studying:
A more flexible work week:
Google will move to a hybrid work week where most Googlers spend approximately three days in the office and two days wherever they work best.
Since in-office time will be focused on collaboration, their product areas, and functions will help decide which days teams will come together in the office.
More choices around where people work:
As one of Google’s biggest advantages is its global footprint, it allows people to pick another office whether business goals can be met in the new location and whether your team has the right infrastructure on the site to support your work.
Also, Google support completely remote work based on people’s role and team needs. Before the pandemic, Google had thousands of people working in locations separate from their core teams.
Now around 60% of Googlers are coming together in the office a few days a week, another 20% are working in new office locations, and 20% are working from home.
Shared spaces and a close-knit community
Over the past few months, Google’s employees in Singapore have been gradually returning to their office, as local restrictions ease.
At the moment, only a small number of Googlers can work in the office at the same time, while others work from home. Based on Google’s global hybrid work strategy, Google Singapore emphasizes flexibility and gives its people additional alternatives for where and how they work in the future.
The reason why Google emphasizes the flexibility of employees can be revealed by a survey on IT people done by Github:
According to research, 79% of the aged 21-34 participants would consider fully remote working because they can have less stress without C-level execs monitoring and be much happier. They also reflected that flexible work can make them work more productively and creates higher-quality outcomes.
Moreover, 43% of people indicated they would consider a lower-paid role if it gave them greater schedule flexibility. The reason is that flexible work gives them more free time to pursue hobbies and other interests outside of work.
As we can see, Google Singapore’s flexible workspace can improve their programmers’ productivity and prevent their Googlers from leaving.
How to implement a flexible workspace for your people like Google?
Hybrid work means a mixed working style of working at the office and working from home. You can allow your employee to have high flexibility to choose their desirable workspace.
ONES all-in-one smart office system can help you to easily implement hybrid working at ease. You can easily perform virtual meetings, desk-hoteling and digital office management with our Room Booking, Desk Booking, and Visitor Management features.
ONES Software now has a dedicated page to introduce a series of hybrid working measures to help you solve problems. You may wish to go to https://ones.software/sg/hybrid-workspace/ for further reference.
Contact us: hello@ones.software, or visit ONES Software official website for more information: https://ones.software/sg/.