I mentioned this over at ACX as well, but the Google WFH thing is scored wrong, I think. Google’s policy is that you can WFH while the pandemic is pandemicking, but once that’s over you have to apply for remote status, and about 20% of people will get it/have gotten it.
Google has very much not said that workers can work from anywhere.
Source: am manager at Google. Obvious disclaimer: I’m speaking from my own understanding, not representing Google here.
Same as Richard, I think this was graded correctly. The question is whether you can do it now, not whether you can do it indefinitely into the future, and right now I presume that you can due to Omicron (or as of 1⁄1). Your information does make me think my sale was a lot less bad, but I do think I still lost.
For what it’s worth, what you’re describing at Google is consistent with my reading of the prediction. I read it as “Google continues to widely allow remote work, no questions asked”. If, as of the resolution date, Google was still allowing people to work from home without special approval, that sounds like “allowing remote work, no questions asked”, even if it is not a permanent state of affairs. If there’s some process for officially requesting permission to work from home, but it is approved by default, that still seems positive to me but not as clearly positive.
It is ambiguously-worded, so I can see why people are saying it’s wrong, but to me the default reading resolves positive based on what Google employees are saying.
I mentioned this over at ACX as well, but the Google WFH thing is scored wrong, I think. Google’s policy is that you can WFH while the pandemic is pandemicking, but once that’s over you have to apply for remote status, and about 20% of people will get it/have gotten it.
Google has very much not said that workers can work from anywhere.
Source: am manager at Google. Obvious disclaimer: I’m speaking from my own understanding, not representing Google here.
Same as Richard, I think this was graded correctly. The question is whether you can do it now, not whether you can do it indefinitely into the future, and right now I presume that you can due to Omicron (or as of 1⁄1). Your information does make me think my sale was a lot less bad, but I do think I still lost.
Having further parsed the comments at ACX I am now at MU. Questions do seem like they are asked.
For what it’s worth, what you’re describing at Google is consistent with my reading of the prediction. I read it as “Google continues to widely allow remote work, no questions asked”. If, as of the resolution date, Google was still allowing people to work from home without special approval, that sounds like “allowing remote work, no questions asked”, even if it is not a permanent state of affairs. If there’s some process for officially requesting permission to work from home, but it is approved by default, that still seems positive to me but not as clearly positive.
It is ambiguously-worded, so I can see why people are saying it’s wrong, but to me the default reading resolves positive based on what Google employees are saying.