I’ve never understood google’s insistence on making everyone sit in the same office. There have been several consolidation pushes over the years. I’d think sma

I’ve never understood google’s insistence on making everyone sit in the same office. There have been several consolidation pushes over the years. I’d think smaller distributed teams would be more desirable. Don’t most people work in small-ish groups anyway? Just the logistics of cramming so many people into such a small space are challenging. The traffic from highway 101 to the googleplex in mountain view is infamous. The highway is wildly oversubscribed, the exits are congested for about 4 hours around the start and end of the work day. (Yes that’s basically constant. There’s a bit of a lull between 11 and 2) Part of the problem is that Mountain View has refused to build more housing for decades so everyone commutes. That’s been changing slowly (housing projects are finally getting approved), but it can’t possibly be enough. Why not take the opportunity of covid to decentralize? Whatever, not my clowns, not my circus. Thank god.