The Google co-founder hit out at employees doing the bare minimum, calling them “not only unproductive but also highly demoralizing to everyone else.”

Google co-founder Sergey Brin has recommended that employees at the tech giant’s DeepMind AI division put in 12-hour workdays as the race to artificial general intelligence (AGI) intensifies.

An internal memo read by The New York Times shows the Google CEO recommending in-office work “at least every weekday.”