Eric Schmidt
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I am not in favor of essentially working at home.
And the reason, I mean, many of you guys all work at home to some degree, but your careers are already established.
But think about a 20-something who has to learn how the world works.
And, you know, they come out of Berkeley or Dartmouth and they're very well educated.
When I think about how...
how much I learned when I was at Sun just listening to these elder people who were five or 10 years older than I was argue with each other in person.
How do you recreate that in this new thing?
And I'm in favor of work-life balance and that's why people work for the government.
Sorry.
Strays.
Sorry, sorry, sorry.
If you're going to be in tech and you're going to win, you're going to have to make some trade-offs.
And remember, we're up against the Chinese.
The Chinese work-life balance consists of 996, which is 9 a.m.
to 9 p.m.
six days a week.
By the way, the Chinese have clarified that this is illegal.
However, they all do it.
That's who you're competing against.
Well, you and I just talked about this as part of your, as your incredibly important work in the White House.