[nostrademons]

Many of them actually are working remotely, but have the option to go into the local office if they need anything. Sometimes they also started going into the office a few days a week and then stopped because there's really no point when the team they're working with is remote. (This is before COVID - now everybody is in this situation, and it's likely the whole company will once we come out of COVID. Most of the moves in question were either from my first time at Google [2009-2014] or the period when I wasn't working for them [2014-2020].)

Source: know the people mentioned.

[oscardelben]

I think it's very rare, I've worked at Google for 8 years and I've met maybe 1 person who works from home on a somewhat regular basis.

[lsiebert]

Observer bias arguably. If they are working from home, rather hard to meet them.

[nostrademons]

Also varies a lot by PA. Chrome is very friendly to remote work, because they're an open-source project with a lot of non-Google contributors anyway. Android or Search, not so much. Research, infrastructure, geo, and core - decent. Don't know too much about the other PAs.

A lot of the people I mentioned above actually transferred PAs to make remote work work. If that's a goal of yours, Google's a big enough company that there's probably a role available.

[UncleMeat]

How? You'd still have meetings with them.

The problem is that you need a VP exception for remote work and many VPs don't believe in it at all. So there are entire orgs where the number of remote people is zero.