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I think this is basically par for the course as a company becomes massive. A small percentage of employees will abuse perks, and once the absolute number hits s

I think this is basically par for the course as a company becomes massive. A small percentage of employees will abuse perks, and once the absolute number hits some threshold the financial cost of that abuse requires revision. Same thing happened at a company I watched from from about 100 to 5000, albeit on a smaller scale.

CydeWeys 7y ago
That's not what cafe badging is about. It wouldn't catch that anyway; you're just badging into the cafe. There's no way to know how much you actually ate.
- djohnston 7y ago
  I think it's more about the 22 y.o hire who decides he and his 5 mates should all get dinner at the new office
  - whymauri 7y ago
    This is generally fine, at least in Google Cambridge. It's just for tax purposes, as has been made abundantly clear in this thread.
    - CydeWeys 7y ago
      It's generally not fine in other offices where cafes are already crowded just with employees (e.g. NYC). You have to register all guests at the building entrance and if you're registering lots of guests all the time, something might happen. What exactly I'm not sure; I don't know anyone who abuses the cafes to this extent. I think the registration requirements alone substantially curtail potential abuse.
  - CydeWeys 7y ago
    Cafe badging does nothing to address this, as guests don't even have badges to badge with! There's no gate that you need to badge into the cafe to enter, if that's what you're thinking about. The way to address that is to see who is consistently registering to bring in way more guests to the office than anyone else.