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Maybe they just can't no longer assume that they can get away with it and prevent leaks about their practices from becoming public.

• pgeorgi 7y ago
  > prevent leaks about their practices from becoming public Google is a company that provides gyms, cooking classes, non-work discussion forums, extensive cafeteria service, massages and so on and so on to make sure employees are living within the company as much as possible. But discussions on such random forums don't reflect company practice just as the gyms don't exist to make every employee a professional marathon runner in Team Google. Since the forums became quite the distraction, there are more rules about them now. I'd fully expect gyms to be limited or shut down if they had adverse effects on the workplace, too. (Disclosure: I work at Google, but the above is my very own, personal, slightly cynical take on the company)
  • umanwizard 7y ago
    > Google is a company that provides gyms, cooking classes, non-work discussion forums, extensive cafeteria service, massages and so on and so on to make sure employees are living within the company as much as possible. I would argue these perks exist because they are what top tech workers can command in the market, not because of some nefarious purpose of wanting people to work longer hours. Sort of like how MLB players have all kinds of nice perks written into their bargaining agreement like always flying first class, etc.
    • ryacko 7y ago
      It could be worse, they could allow employees to sleep in trucks or cars in the parking lot...