Flexible work, with days spent working from home, needs to be eliminated, says Google’s former CEO Eric Schmidt.

Schmidt spoke on an episode of the “All-In” podcast, which aired on Wednesday. In the episode, Schmidt said that he was “not in favor of, essentially, working at home,” because it inhibits learning in junior employees.

He mentioned that he learned from “elder people” while he was working at Sun Microsystems , a computer manufacturer purchased by Oracle in 2010 for $7.4 billion , by being in the office and listening to conversations. Schmidt worked at Sun from 1983 to 1997, rising from a software manager role to become vice president of the Sun General Systems Group.

“Think about a 20-something who has to learn how the world works,” Schmidt said on the podcast. “When I

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