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Google Employees Secretly Live on Campus to Avoid Paying Rent

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Re: Google Employees Secretly Live on Campus to Avoid Paying Rent

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Post by w1ntermute »

Systemic33 wrote: post #2

Can't Google just setup dormitories? It's halfway on being it's own city, so why not go all out and have cheap living quarters?

Do you think they haven't thought of that already?

> if it could house employees on federal property, those people could work, eat at Google cafes, and go home again without ever leaving Google’s island.

http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/26/5444030/company-town-how-g...

Re: Google Employees Secretly Live on Campus to Avoid Paying Rent

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Post by blahpro »

Systemic33 wrote: post #2

Can't Google just setup dormitories? It's halfway on being it's own city, so why not go all out and have cheap living quarters?

I would argue that this could be counter-productive. 24/7 immersion in an employer-owned and operated environment doesn't sound healthy from a work/life balance perspective.

Re: Google Employees Secretly Live on Campus to Avoid Paying Rent

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Post by sounds »

It sounds like Google will be making some rapid changes to their security policy.

Part of me feels bad for the guys who just got ratted out. Homelessness is a pretty disorienting thing.

Part of me feels like this is just another way of saying that there's a bay area housing shortage...

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Post by onion2k »

Systemic33 wrote: post #2

Can't Google just setup dormitories? It's halfway on being it's own city, so why not go all out and have cheap living quarters?

And thus, Google becomes The Circle completely.

I'm being a bit flippant, but really the last thing Google employees (and every other successful tech businesses to be fair) need is to be more isolated in their ivory towers. Meeting people outside of the tech industry keeps you grounded and stops you forgetting that there are vast numbers of people who aren't so intelligent and happy with massive changes every couple of years. If a tech is going to be inclusive and produce a better society in to the future it's important that the people making things are integrated with the rest of society.

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Post by bsaul »

Does anyone else feels like we're really getting towards the cyberpunk universe ? with corporations that completely own the life of their employees by providing them with everything, and a violent lawless and miserable outside world.

And as always, it all started with the best intentions.

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