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Google employees can expense $1000 worth of Office furniture

10 points by rammy1234 6y ago

crmrc114 6y ago
1K for a decent standing desk, chair, dock, monitors, webcam, ups... yeah I spent more than that on my personal home work desk setup. When I was working with a larger company the expected me to provide the furniture (Sans monitor arms), they supplied the electronics. What have you guys had your workplaces cover?
- scrumper 6y ago
  C round startup, ~150ppl, globally $350 in office equipment of your choice (with reasonable justification), or $250 cash equivalent if you had a nice setup and just wanted to stock your bar. I already had a decent space so I spent mine on very high quality daylight bulbs and a decent webcam and audio. The day the expense check cleared, my chair broke :)
- YourMatt 6y ago
  I worked from home for 10 years without asking for a thing. Last year, I asked for a $3,000 office chair. They asked for a few weeks to think about it. I still haven't received a thing. I personally don't feel like I need my company to pay for tools to do my job, outside of software that's priced outside of what an individual could afford. I think of the mechanics and contractors in my family who have spent an order of magnitude more on their tools than I have, and earn a fraction of what I earn. I only asked for the chair because it was really nice and would have helped my posture, and I can't justify dropping $3k on a chair.
  - tru3_power 6y ago
    What chair is it? I have a stealcase leap v2 which is a little less than a third of the cost and I love it.
    - YourMatt 6y ago
      It was a Lifeform chair with some upgrades. It was over the top for sure. I've been happy with the X-Chair I bought for under a grand. The Leap chair came up a lot when I was doing research. People love them. I didn't find one locally where I could use it for a while before buying though, so it wasn't in actual consideration.
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adarioble 6y ago
If you quit before your home office is amortised, would you have to ship it back to google? :) While most of us used to (some level of) WFH and already have monitors, printers, etc, $1k doesn’t sound as a lot to someone furnishing the whole home office.

10 points by rammy1234 6y ago

1K for a decent standing desk, chair, dock, monitors, webcam, ups... yeah I spent more than that on my personal home work desk setup. When I was working with a larger company the expected me to provide the furniture (Sans monitor arms), they supplied the electronics. What have you guys had your workplaces cover?

scrumper 6y ago
C round startup, ~150ppl, globally $350 in office equipment of your choice (with reasonable justification), or $250 cash equivalent if you had a nice setup and just wanted to stock your bar. I already had a decent space so I spent mine on very high quality daylight bulbs and a decent webcam and audio. The day the expense check cleared, my chair broke :)
YourMatt 6y ago
I worked from home for 10 years without asking for a thing. Last year, I asked for a $3,000 office chair. They asked for a few weeks to think about it. I still haven't received a thing. I personally don't feel like I need my company to pay for tools to do my job, outside of software that's priced outside of what an individual could afford. I think of the mechanics and contractors in my family who have spent an order of magnitude more on their tools than I have, and earn a fraction of what I earn. I only asked for the chair because it was really nice and would have helped my posture, and I can't justify dropping $3k on a chair.
- tru3_power 6y ago
  What chair is it? I have a stealcase leap v2 which is a little less than a third of the cost and I love it.
  - YourMatt 6y ago
    It was a Lifeform chair with some upgrades. It was over the top for sure. I've been happy with the X-Chair I bought for under a grand. The Leap chair came up a lot when I was doing research. People love them. I didn't find one locally where I could use it for a while before buying though, so it wasn't in actual consideration.
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adarioble 6y ago

If you quit before your home office is amortised, would you have to ship it back to google? :) While most of us used to (some level of) WFH and already have monitors, printers, etc, $1k doesn’t sound as a lot to someone furnishing the whole home office.