I agree there are drawbacks. I could imagine a certain allowance for spouses, children, etc. I got the idea from couchsurfing.com development. I heard anecdote

I agree there are drawbacks. I could imagine a certain allowance for spouses, children, etc. I got the idea from couchsurfing.com development. I heard anecdotes that they were trading couch time at their offices for dev time. I thought you can do much better than that. It also fit into an article I read on millenials being more motivated by "experiences" than salary. If you want to attract the best talent you should promise them some incredible experience - and destination employment seems to me to beat the Google campus type experience. To be honest, given my current circumstances I would jump at the opportunity for the right experience. I mostly choose where to work/live based on experience.