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Google’s empty offices feel like a ‘ghost town’, says boss

Employees at Google regularly complain that its offices feel like “a ghost town”, its chief executive has said.

According to audio obtained by CNBC, Sundar Pichai said: “There are people, by the way, who routinely complain that they come in and there are big swathes of empty desks and it feels like it’s a ghost town — it’s just not a nice experience.”

Pichai, chief executive of Google and Alphabet, its parent company, said there were many people coming to the office “only two days a week”, which he said made for an inefficient use of current space.

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