Google lost ground to rivals by letting staff leave the office early and work from home, the company’s former chief executive has said. Eric Schmidt, who led Google until 2011 and was its ...

In his view, Google had spent too long emphasizing "work-life balance and going home early and working from home" over "winning," leading it to fall behind younger startups such as OpenAI.

Either way, Google’s lack of innovation in the AI department can’t be down to staff working from home more than those at OpenAI—they have the same 3-day in-office policy.