Google's CEO on the Future of Work

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🗓️ 18 October 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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As CEO of Alphabet, Google's parent company, Sundar Pichai is responsible for a massive, 144,000-person workforce. Right now, he's grappling with big issues, like how tech should be regulated, how to rein in cybercrime and how (or whether) workers return to the office. WSJ's Editor in Chief, Matt Murray, asks him about these issues and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sundar Pachai is the CEO of one of the world's largest companies, Alphabet, the parent company
0:12.0	of Google.
0:13.6	And right now, he's leading the company through a complex period.
0:17.9	He's rethinking the workplace and company culture.
0:20.8	He's dealing with growing calls for more regulation.
0:24.2	And he's figuring out how to confront an explosion of misinformation.
0:29.3	On Friday, the editor-in-chief of the Wall Street Journal had the chance to sit down with
0:33.6	Pachai to talk about the challenges ahead for the company.
0:37.9	So today, we get to hear from Pachai himself.
0:44.9	Welcome to the Journal, our show about money, business, and power.
0:49.2	I'm Kate Limbaw.
0:50.2	It's Monday, October 18th.
0:58.3	Coming up on the show, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pachai, on how one of the world's biggest
1:03.5	tech companies is looking toward the future.
1:21.9	Our editor-in-chief, Matt Murray, sat down with Alphabet CEO Sundar Pachai last week.
1:27.2	Our interview was recorded outside on a warm sunny day for the Wall Street Journal tech
1:31.9	live conference.
1:33.7	Matt started the conversation with the topic companies everywhere are figuring out.
1:38.6	The future of work.
1:40.8	Let's start with something on everybody's mind right now, which is the workforce return.
1:45.6	You have, I think, pushed your official starting date at Google now back to January.
1:50.8	Where are you right now?
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