‘Fake work’ & ‘BS’ jobs | Leading VC investor claims half of Google does "no real work"

A general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, a major Silicon Valley venture capital (VC) firm, has used Google as an “amazing example” of “fake work”.

David Elevitch, the investor in question, addressed the topic of fake work – the notion that many white-collar employees at large-scale companies have nothing to do, or add no strategic value to the business – in an interview with Emily Sundberg published in her business newsletter “Feed Me.”

"I don't think it's crazy to believe that half the white-collar staff at Google probably does no real work," Elevitch said. "The company has spent billions and billions of dollars per year on projects that go nowhere for over a decade, and all that money could have been returned to shareholders who have retirement accounts."

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, stated in a company meeting in 2022 that there were concerns that “productivity as a whole is not where it needs to be for the headcount we have."