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I don't know if this would work, but Google, FB, Apple, et al should try to build out live/work communities. Yeah, kind of like a company town. The best part o
by baron816 5y ago
I don't know if this would work, but Google, FB, Apple, et al should try to build out live/work communities. Yeah, kind of like a company town.
The best part of college is the college campus. I don't know why companies don't want to try to replicate that. It would definitely be more appealing to younger employees, and I be it would get them to stick around much longer.
Imagine being able to walk to work, and having most of your coworkers live close by as well. The social bonds you would form with people would be much stronger. And moving to that campus to start at the company would be less scary knowing that you'd quickly get to know and build good relationships with coworkers/neighbors.
Yeah, it would mean earning more money might not actually get you a nicer living arrangement, since you might not have many choices and pretty much everything would be provided for you. I guess you'd want to try to figure out the correct mixture (maybe 40% on campus 60% off).
- ptmcc 5y agoSounds absolutely dreadful
- sharkster711 5y agoMost people in the US want to own the house they live in, and most would also want to not move when they move jobs. I think the campus idea would only appeal to younger folks. I'd also not like the idea that my life revolves around work - and this sounds exactly like that.
- baron816 5y agoOk, I didn't say it should be mandatory. A lot of people also don't care about owning a house (at least right now). A lot of people care about forming good relationships, but don't have good ways to do so.
- lancebeet 5y agoWhat about people's spouses or significant others?
- baron816 5y agoEasy: the couple wouldn't have to live on the campus. But I can ask you this: what happens to the significant others of people in the military?
- ghaff 5y agoSo companies should be like the military? You sign up for a tour of duty, you can't quit, and you move where they tell you to?
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- FredPret 5y agoCampus is fun when you’re 19, but when you hit 35 and want to be more choosey about who you spend your time with, this no longer works. You’d have to multiply my salary by ten to get me to move to that hell.
- baron816 5y agoI never said it should be mandatory, just something employers offer and maybe encourage. Companies have a history of putting people into "corporate housing", which is expensive. You may not like it, but others might.
- MrKristopher 5y agoIn other words, megacorps should buy up / produce all the housing so that the employees can't become home owners?
- rbartelme 5y agoThis is an extreme example of what can happen in a "company town". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_View_massacre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_View_massacre
- optimalsolver 5y agoSee also: https://museumofindustry.novascotia.ca/nova-scotia-industry/coal-mining/miners-memorial-day-davis-day https://museumofindustry.novascotia.ca/nova-scotia-industry/...
- standardUser 5y agoIn San Francisco, tech workers flooded the city specifically because they refused to live in the various bedroom communities close to their mega-campuses. Hence the widespread emergence of shuttles and satellite offices in city centers.
- Karsteski 5y agongl, this sounds like an absolute nightmare to me...
- yowlingcat 5y agoIt sounds like you are building an "ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of" a city. Why not just live in the trendy areas of a real city if you want that feeling?
- toast0 5y agoPiling on that this sounds terrible. A case could be made for big tech should build high density housing near their offices, but once it's built, big tech shouldn't own or operate it. Chances are, a good number of people who work nearby would consider living there, but without any of the awful results of having your living arangements tied directly to your working arangements.