Throughout a latest companywide assembly, Google CEO Sundar Pichai defended the corporate’s new desk-sharing coverage for workers. In keeping with Pichai, the corporate goals for effectivity and cost-effectiveness and desires to make the most of out there assets correctly.

CNBC obtained audio of the assembly wherein Pichai stated Google’s places of work are virtually empty. “There are individuals, by the way in which,” stated the CEO, “who routinely complain that they arrive in and there are huge swaths of empty desks, and it feels prefer it’s a ghost city — it is simply not a pleasant expertise.”

Desk-sharing is a part of a downsizing effort known as Cloud Workplace Evolution. CNBC reported on CLOE in February, detailing Google’s plans to ask Cloud workers and companions to share desks within the division’s largest places of work.

Through the assembly, Pichai talked about that many workers are coming into the workplace solely two days every week, which is an inefficient use of the present area. He additionally harassed that the corporate needs to be good stewards of economic assets and cautious about the way it thinks about actual property, as Google has costly (and expansive) properties.

On the similar assembly the place Pichai addressed desk-sharing, Google Cloud’s technique and operations vp, Anas Osman, reported that roughly one-third of workers had been at firm places of work as much as 4 days weekly. Moreover, workers stated they skilled notably improved collaboration when assigned workplace days, even when factoring in shared desk rotations.

Responding to feedback through the assembly from involved workers about varied points—together with how Google communicated its desk-sharing coverage to the corporate at massive—Pichai acknowledged the sentiment and stated the suggestions was legitimate.