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Google’s $99 a night company hotel advertises ‘no commute’ as a perk
- dsgnr 3y agoMy wfh corporate job has no commute and I dont have to pay extra for it. Google sucks so much ass now.
- tekno45 3y agoThis is a hotel that costs you money so you can work?
- Smeevy 3y agoIt costs you money right now. The next step is for it to paid with GoogleBucks instead of regular money. It won't be company scrip because they'll have an app for it. Think of how "disruptive" that new innovation will be!
- weregiraffe 3y ago>It won't be company scrip because they'll have an app for it. written in company script
- barryrandall 3y agoBut if they pay you in GoogleBucks and only accept cash at the hotel, they can also charge you a fee to convert the GoogleBucks to cash.
- Sohcahtoa82 3y agoAnd then people will be asking what the ratio of GoogleBucks to Apple Nickels is.
- amf12 3y agoThis is a hotel that is cheaper than other hotels around, and allows someone to live in a city hours away, and just commute to the expensive city for the 3 in-office days.
- 60secs 3y agoMedian rent for a 1 bedroom in mountainview is $3.6k Median salary for google is $280k. Some of that is stock so let's say, so $20k, and after taxes $13k/mo. Take out match for 401k, health plan deductions and real take home around $9-10k/mo. No need for a car or an apartment. Food, gymn, and laundry are free, so only expense left is clothing. That's an amazing deal given the network effects of other perks, especially considering no need to commute. If you're young and single it's really a no-brainer.
- Our_Benefactors 3y agoYou will own nothing and be happy! Personally, my stomach churns at the idea of having your entire life and identity tied up in a job.
- neongodzilla 3y agoTools don't have lives, so just put them in a drawer.
- raisedbyninjas 3y agoIt's cheaper until the promo rate expires (in 4 days?) or cost otherwise rises just 20%. I thought Google ended free meals and laundry. Who else wants all their home internet traffic routing through their employer? At least workers won't be stuck with a long apartment lease at the next Google layoff. They can conveniently collect their box of belongings on the sidewalk when they lose their job.
- awa 3y agoFree meals still exists.
- riversflow 3y agoIsn't this aimed specifically at people who are hybrid? I'd love something like this, personally. Have my house outside the city, travel in for 3 days 2 nights each week for work. This seems absolutely reasonable to me, although I kinda think they should offer it for free, but I don't know the legal ramifications of that.
- dpistole 3y agobarely related but I used to commute 60/90 minutes for an entry level tech job in orange county (I lived inland where it was more industrial and was chasing opportunity). Sometimes we'd have client network outages that left us in office until late night/early morning, twice I tried to sleep at the office instead of driving home. first time was in my car and was kicked out of the parking lot by security, I probably should have protested more second time was curled up against a wall in our equipment room, and the poor cleaning lady let out a shout when she discovered me haha on one hand a company hotel seems kind of perverse to me, on the other its cheaper than the super 8 was in 2010, and I probably would have taken a $99 room over the commute every now and then
- lostlogin 3y ago> I probably would have taken a $99 room over the commute every now and then Your employer should have done this for you, and paid the bill. At some point there is liability as it’s a safety hazard.
- MandieD 3y agoLarge employers in Germany will enforce the max 10 hour rule for non-managers not from the goodness of their hearts or because they don’t want to be stuck paying overtime, but because here, they have a good chance of having at least some of the liability if you are involved in an accident. When my skip-level’s boss spotted me in the office at 7pm during a very serious outage, and told him that I’d been there since 6, he commended my efforts and insisted I take a cab home and have them bill the company directly, no matter how far away home was, and stated that I was under no circumstance to set foot on company property before 8am the next day, and that I needed to have at least 10 hours between arriving home and leaving for work the next morning.
- taftster 3y agoI actually see this could be a useful thing. A hybrid worker that needs to get into the office a couple of times per week would leverage this to stay a night or two, particularly if their commute was otherwise fairly long. Let's say that someone's commute would be over an hour long, but they have some ability to work from home. On the days that they need to be in office, staying the night at a reasonably priced company hotel might bring a lot of value.
- d3w4s9 3y ago...saying that as a young single hobbyless person might make a little bit of sense. Wouldn't work for anyone else.
- taftster 3y agoI don't know, I do this exact thing right now in my current employment. I've got kids and spouse at home, fully invested in their lives, and still trying to grow my career. This situation works very well for me, since I live in the boonies outside a tech metro hotspot (not SV). I don't think it's necessarily just for "young single" types.
- _moof 3y agoYou've heard of work from home, now try home from work!
- freetanga 3y agoSo it’s the FoxConn model but cool?
- j7ake 3y agoSounds great! Add on-site day care and I am in. Side note: which companies offer on site day care?
- wkat4242 3y agoI wonder if there's anything worthwhile to do at night though. Bars, nightclubs, raves.. After all spending night after night in a hotel sucks.
- nyc_data_geek1 3y agoGoogle invented a company town
- skyyler 3y agoThe hospital my mom is a nurse for is currently building an apartment building next door for the workers that can't afford the rent in a small Ohio city. I'm a little concerned about these developments.
- Detrytus 3y agoIn 1980s in a communist country my dad was a truck driver. His (state-owned) company built a whole apartment building for their employees. This is where I lived for first few years of my life.
- gumballindie 3y agoThat’s the direction things are heading. Corporate communism i call it.
- lacker 3y agoAn on-campus hotel sounds pretty great for employees visiting from other countries. When I was working at Facebook, sometimes every hotel near Menlo Park would be sold out during times like conferences when many people were coming in from out of town. You could end up having an hour commute, when you're just in California for a few days. Business travel is already stressful, and adding in a bunch of commute time just makes it worse.
- Zetobal 3y agoAround 2009 we ended up sleeping in the office when visiting from europe but I bet it's a bit weird now even when it was sort of the norm back then.
- gumballindie 3y agoGoogle’s taking the piss i see. It will become the new ibm in no time. Their search is already appalling.