Months after CEO Sundar Pichai told staff to ‘be more AI-savvy,’ Google managers tell all employees: Your performance review will now depend on…

Google has spent the past year telling employees to get comfortable with AI. What started as encouragement from the CEO is now being baked into how workers are evaluated—and it’s no longer just about engineers. In recent weeks, managers at Google have begun informing non-technical employees that their use of AI tools will be considered during performance reviews later this year, Business Insider reported. Some sales staff have even been handed weekly quotas for how often they’re expected to use specific AI tools. The shift signals that AI adoption at Google is no longer a nice-to-have—it’s becoming a job requirement.

AI use is now part of the job description at Google