Sounds like Google is trying to reinstate company scrip.
You might want to mark that NSFW. Don’t want to be caught reading some discussion with the word union in it.
We need unions for many reasons, but an employer offering optional housing onsite really isn’t one of them. It’s not like it’s required to rent from Google to work there.
These days, that’s cheaper than a lot of places rent for and you get free maid service. Fucking Google might have accidentally stumbled upon something helpful. And $99 a night is not profitable for the sort of hotel their employees would actually want to stay in, so they still lose!
What an absolute joke. Just let people work from home, you absolute dinosaurs.
But then you can’t siphon off 99$ a night from them!
Come on, everyone! We gotta get those profits up!
They want to force attrition. They over hired and need to reduce headcount but they don’t want the negative press of laying more people off.
Whilst it wouldn’t surprise me at all if this was the case, I’ve seen similar things at other companies, it’s a completely brain-dead strategy. The people who leave are the most qualified and capable employees who can easily find a job elsewhere and you’re just left with all the people who the company swept up in the boom period where they were hiring anyone with a pulse.
Isn’t that the dream for a capitalist! Labor that sleeps at work. Google takes it a step further and asks employees to pay for being able to sleep at work.
They just need to implement a full company score!
Edit: Meant company store, but I’ll leave the original
Holy hell boss.
I thought you meant something like china’s social credit score.
Get more points, you get a better chair and OLED screen or even a chance at a promotion.
Points go down, you get sent to a shitty cubicle at the far corner of the office. Then a verbal warning, followed by a written warning…
Holy hell boss.
I thought you meant something like china’s social credit score.
Get more points, you get a better chair and OLED screen or even a chance at a promotion.
Points go down, you get sent to a shitty cubicle at the far corner of the office. Then a verbal warning, followed by a written warning…
Next they will start issueing company scrip, then a company town around the YouTube mines.
Companies will start using crypto as a way to recreate what scrip was back before it was banned. Meta made a play for that a few years back but luckily they failed.
Say what you want about crypto in general, but it’d be an extremely bad choice for company scrip…
Depends on the implementation, you can make contracts do anything, and if the bulk of the currency is premined and in the hands of the corporation, they can manipulate its value freely. Not every cryptocurrency works the way Bitcoin or Etherium work, some are quite centralised (see XRP for example).
Meta could demand that ads on its platform are paid in metabucks, pay employees (partly) in metabucks and manipulate the market by controlling liquidity. Essentially they’d be their own sovereign corporation issuing its own currency.
Sooooooooooome people say man is made out of mud, the poor man’s made out of muscle and blood. Muscle and blood, skin and bone, a mind that’s weak and a back thats strong… You move 16 tons… whadaya get? Another day older and deeper in debt… St. Peter don’tcha call me because I can’t go…
I owe my soul… to the company store…
Obligatory reference to the Joe VS the volcano version of 16 tons
For the uninitiated: https://youtu.be/74WvUV7H8Nw
