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If the shuttle buses are to be suspended, but they still expect people to come to work, it is a recipe for disaster. When I still worked there, about 60% of my
by dmitrygr 6y ago
If the shuttle buses are to be suspended, but they still expect people to come to work, it is a recipe for disaster. When I still worked there, about 60% of my co-workers took the shuttle from San Francisco. About 90% of those who did, did not own a car. Telling them they have to come to the office or quit is equivalent to firing them. I doubt anybody is going to buy a car AND sit an hour in traffic in the morning and an hour and traffic in the evening, to keep a particular job. Xooglers generally have no trouble finding jobs, just having that on their resume.
- novok 6y agoXoogler or not, you still have to go through the leetcode gauntlet, and a bunch of places that would pay you the same are all asking to 'go into the office'. FB, Apple, etc.
- zrail 6y agoI thought FB went permanent remote option. Did that change?
- 0xEFF 6y agoYou may be thinking of Twitter.
- ghaff 6y agoNot as extreme as Twitter but Facebook has definitely indicated they'll be increasingly open to remote work: https://www.theverge.com/facebook/2020/5/21/21265699/facebook-remote-work-shift-workforce-permanent-covid-19-mark-zuckerberg-interview https://www.theverge.com/facebook/2020/5/21/21265699/faceboo...
- ghaff 6y agoOf course, the vast majority of employees in the tech sector manage to get by without shuttle buses, free cafeterias, etc.
- kazen44 6y agothe sillicon valley bubble of HN is sometimes hilarious. the concept of a company providing shuttle bus service instead of just having proper public transport to bussiness parks is very weird when one thinks about it.
- ghaff 6y agoPublic transit, e.g. commuter rail, works well into a city with a public transit system. It works far less well into a distributed set of suburban/ex-urban industrial parks. I can get into our small city office with a short drive and a longish train trip. I pretty much have to drive to our suburban office.
- throwaway3699 6y agoIt is a bubble, but I get it because the default infrastructure is so bad. Everybody hopping in a car is just not a good solution.
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- dmitrygr 6y agoIt is not Google's job to fix public transit in the Bay area. But given the lack of transit, if they don't provide shuttle service, many of their workers cannot work from the office. So not really a bubble as much as stating the fact.
- caturopath 6y agoNote that the buses are a key part of the offices' parking plans. Some of the garages were already valet double parked in the beforetimes.
- randyrand 6y agomy commute was already 1hr 30 minutes each way with the bus. sometimes 2hrs. its not a practical commute without a bus. Too much traffic.