Whilst it wouldn’t surprise me at all if this was the case, I’ve seen similar things at other companies, it’s a completely brain-dead strategy. The people who leave are the most qualified and capable employees who can easily find a job elsewhere and you’re just left with all the people who the company swept up in the boom period where they were hiring anyone with a pulse.
It has nothing to do with profits. It’s more profitable to have everyone work from home. Upper managers and executives simply prefer having everyone in the office because they like it. It’s their preference.
Sooooooooooome people say man is made out of mud, the poor man’s made out of muscle and blood. Muscle and blood, skin and bone, a mind that’s weak and a back thats strong… You move 16 tons… whadaya get? Another day older and deeper in debt… St. Peter don’tcha call me because I can’t go…
If you see coming better step aside, a lot of men didn’t and a lot of men died. One first of iron and the others steel if the right don’t get you then the left one will…
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Also, just based on the fact that they’re a data analytics and AI company, and their public privacy and security track record with their services, I’d genuinely be worried what kind of “guest experience analytics” is going on at that “hotel.” Is there a camera in the shower? You don’t know.
I worked at Apple while living 45 miles away about 10y ago. I got into a habit of staying in hotels like the Hilton when I had to pull long hours. The cost was less then than it is now. Even now, a quick search on Google Maps show these hotels to be in the $200 range or less. Probably cheaper on weeknights. It’s not one-for-one analogous to Mountain View, but it’s the same general area.
I’d rather double the cost and have my own space away from my employer if I had to crash nearby because it didn’t make sense to do a long drive. I especially would rather double the cost than give back part of my paycheck to my employer. That’s just insane mechanics, imo.
I’m surprised. I used to travel there for work about seven years ago and the cheapest I could get then was about $250 a night. But now that I check, the hotels really are cheaper than they used to be. I wonder if that has to do with covid-related changes to where people work.
“what it is today” a tax-evading, weapons-manufacturing, privacy-invading, wannabe monopoly, that’s continually fucking up their core products and radicalizing people into the far right for profit?
ya gotta agree at least significant parts of those workers’ brains are dead
I’m sure that pretty much no Google employee is happy with this. But it’s the classic “I don’t want to lose my place near the top of the industry which I’ve spend my entire life getting to, so I can’t criticize my employer or the direction the industry is going in any way.” Self policing and going along with whatever the man decides so you don’t lose your job and means of supporting yourself and your family. Same with a lot of the people working on the Web Integrity thing I imagine.
There are a lot of different places in the industry where these Google developers could work. I am employed by a company where developers have flexible schedules, no overtime work (except in unusual circumstances), and three days a week of work-from-home. The catch is that my company pays a lot less than Google does - still enough for an upper-middle-class lifestyle, but less. So our developers tend to be people who have children and want to spend more time with their families, and they’re willing to take a pay cut to do that. For the sort of person who has the option of working at Google, “supporting your family” means working less, not more.
Google’s developers are people who prefer higher pay and/or a more fast-paced environment. They might not like this policy, but they don’t want to leave. They could if they wanted to.
$99 a night for company rooms? Around here we can get a shitty room, AND a hooker for that price. Not to mention drugs being readily available in the parking lot.
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