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The 10,000-apartment tech campus: what if companies provided on-site housing?
- walshemj 13y agoThere are problems with having "tied" housing what happens when you leave or have a disagreement with your boss oops you are now homeless. Also a lot of these model villages like cadburys etc where very small c conservative and had rule about behavior out side of work that might not go down well. One real world example in my village in the UK even today both of the village pubs are not in the actual Parrish as the landowners didn't like the "workers" drinking - of course the landowners had wine with dinner but thats different sorry Mr Smith you haven't been mowing your lawn regularly enough so you are fired.
- greenyoda 13y agoEmployers building housing for their employees isn't really a new idea: at some point in history, 3% of the U.S. population lived in "company towns".[1] But would you really want to live in a place where the only people you could socialize with are your co-workers, and where you'd be exiled from your entire community if you changed jobs or were fired? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town