Lunch at work is a great idea, for both company and employees, especially if the company is kinda far from food options. I'd probably rather work at a company t

Lunch at work is a great idea, for both company and employees, especially if the company is kinda far from food options. I'd probably rather work at a company that pays slightly more and is located near lots of good food in a downtown/walkable area than one that feeds me, unless their kitchens are as good as Google, but it's kind of a toss up. I'm always excited to get invited to Google for lunch, but I doubt most companies do it anywhere near as well as Google. But, breakfast and dinner, too? I begin to question the motives of the company. If it is to enable/encourage a flexible schedule so that employees can make their commute at low-traffic times, awesome! If it is so that employees feel compelled to be in the office 12 hours a day, it's much less awesome. I think Google is a decent example of the former (while still having some traits of the latter). Again, it's easy for it to be used to enable age discrimination and discrimination against people with children and lives outside of work, without ever explicitly doing so. Anyway, I'm not actually trying to say a company feeding their employees is a bad thing. I'm trying to say that there's been a trend of taking tech workers right out of college and sort of continuing their dorm life well into their late 20s and even 30s, and I don't know that it is particularly healthy (for the workers or society in these areas). It's easy to lack empathy when every interaction is with people just like you, which is why I think there's been a recent clash against Google and other tech behemoths in SF communities. There's a lack of engagement in the rest of civil society when you live and breathe work, and live surrounded by people who do exactly the same kind of work, and are living exactly the same kind of life.