Google bets on office return with $1bn London property purchase

Google is investing in property, indicating tech workers will return to offices.

Google has said it will spend $1bn (€870m) to buy up its own London offices, keeping a major presence in the UK capital at a time when firms wrestle with how to manage employee work habits.

The purchase and renovation of the Central Saint Giles complex it moved into in 2011 are being undertaken as the company finishes construction of its giant new UK headquarters in the King’s Cross area.