In the end, I think the author just sounds jealous ( ~_~)-p I've never been comfortable with accusing others of jealousy when they criticize behavior that pote

In the end, I think the author just sounds jealous ( ~_~)-p I've never been comfortable with accusing others of jealousy when they criticize behavior that potentially hits too close to home. The author has a point. If you add enough perks that your employees never have to leave the office or worse, are only friends with other people at your company, it can create an insular environment which is not conducive to being responsive to changing behaviors and attitudes that happen outside your bubble. Now, the creation of that bubble doesn't necessarily require perks and it won't necessarily form if there are a lot of perks, but we shouldn't delude ourselves into thinking they don't exist and companies like Google, whose HQ is physically segmented from outside distractions (like a city) and whose employees' social circles seem to be heavily work-related, isn't in an insular bubble right now.