Time is money | Do staff need to be working constantly in an eight-hour day?

In an internal memo to its employees, a HR practitioner at Google said that the average employee at the tech giant works more than a normal nine-to-five day.

The message was a response to an employee who had asked the company if he could work fewer hours across more days of the week.

“Most salaried Googlers already work longer than 8-hour days on the days they’re working,” the HR representative said. “Nobody is 120% FTE (Full Time Employee) for working a normal FT job at Google, so working a compressed 100% schedule isn’t really realistic.”

The message also outlined that the company allows its workforce to apply for schedules that are 60% or 80% of a full-time role.