Google has gotten so cheap, employees now have to share desks
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Re: Google has gotten so cheap, employees now have to share desks
#2IMO, it's to make them uncomfortable (i.e., don't get too comfy). Change is imminent. What that change is, not exactly sure.
Re: Google has gotten so cheap, employees now have to share desks
#3I guess it's to make people quit and get out of paying severance?
Re: Google has gotten so cheap, employees now have to share desks
#4Are they required to go to office? Or is working allowed remotely?
Re: Google has gotten so cheap, employees now have to share desks
#5Clickbait title because arstechnica is a garbage publication.
Employees are expected to work 2 days a week out of the office, and will swap the desk with another employee. They will not sit at the same desk at the same time.
Doing anything less is wasteful, and if Google was doing this before it was robbing investors.
Re: Google has gotten so cheap, employees now have to share desks
#6Google (at least circa 2014 when I graduated) has slowly taken on the image of a “retirement home” (i.e. where you go to turn your brain off and clock in to get paid) in elite STEM undergrad programs. Oracle had solidified their spot, but at least at Google it used to be easy to find interesting teams if you knew people there to navigate the team matching process. Now it’s decline is in full swing, its sad but seems inevitable for behemoths of human capital.
Re: Google has gotten so cheap, employees now have to share desks
#7Clickbait title because arstechnica is a garbage publication. Employees are expected to work 2 days a week out of the office, and will swap the desk with another employee. They will not sit at the same desk at the same time. Doing anything less is wasteful, and if Google was doing this before it was robbing investors.
> Doing anything less is wasteful, and if Google was doing this before it was robbing investors.
Overton window keeps moving in the direction of fuck the employees to benefit the shareholders I guess. Having a personalized space used to not be considered a perk but table stacks for working at a company not too long ago. I get that the employees aren’t in office all week but that’s kinda on google for not having enough desks given that they mandated a return to office.
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#8This is embarrassing and just degrading to employees.
Re: Google has gotten so cheap, employees now have to share desks
#9Clickbait title because arstechnica is a garbage publication. Employees are expected to work 2 days a week out of the office, and will swap the desk with another employee. They will not sit at the same desk at the same time. Doing anything less is wasteful, and if Google was doing this before it was robbing investors.
> Doing anything less is wasteful, and if Google was doing this before it was robbing investors. Overton window keeps moving in the direction of fuck the employees to benefit the shareholders I guess. Having a personalized space used to not be considered a perk but table stacks for working at a company not too long ago. I get that the employees aren’t in office all week but that’s kinda on google for not having enoug…
I honestly hate open offices so much. I'm constantly amazed any work gets done with the layout.
Re: Google has gotten so cheap, employees now have to share desks
#10Clickbait title because arstechnica is a garbage publication. Employees are expected to work 2 days a week out of the office, and will swap the desk with another employee. They will not sit at the same desk at the same time. Doing anything less is wasteful, and if Google was doing this before it was robbing investors.
> Doing anything less is wasteful, and if Google was doing this before it was robbing investors. Overton window keeps moving in the direction of fuck the employees to benefit the shareholders I guess. Having a personalized space used to not be considered a perk but table stacks for working at a company not too long ago. I get that the employees aren’t in office all week but that’s kinda on google for not having enoug…
Would you pay to rent a car for 5 days if you were only going to drive it for 2 days? You wouldn't, because you care about your own money. Why is it that we pretend like "shareholders" are these mythical beasts that are different than us? I have money in the stock market. You probably do as well. Why does your money suddenly become ok to waste if it's invested in a company?
5 days a week, yes, everyone gets their own desk. You don't want them having their productivity hurt by being crammed in like sardines. But in this case, let's be real. Nobody but the most OCD germophobe is going to have lower productivity because they are sitting in a desk that someone else was in a day before.