Mountain View requires phone systems to pass fire inspection in office buildings. Employees generally need a system by which to contact emergency services. Lab

Mountain View requires phone systems to pass fire inspection in office buildings. Employees generally need a system by which to contact emergency services. Labor laws in some jurisdictions cover employee expectations by the employer. If the employer is shown to have arbitrary expectations of their employees (like "soft hours" or flexible work schedules), those expectations need to be somewhere in writing or you can get in big trouble. I've heard of engineering firms being totally screwed (into bankruptcy) by overzealous labor law enforcement when it was discovered that they, for example, had policies like "work whenever and however you want, as long as you get your job done."