What an absolute joke. Just let people work from home, you absolute dinosaurs.

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.

Next they will start issueing company scrip, then a company town around the YouTube mines.

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.....

Fucking company town. Google has become a real shit company. Switch your default search to duck duck go or anything else people!

The advertisement entices workers to make the jump, even for a short while, to its on-campus hotel, saying: “Just imagine no commute to the office in the morning and instead, you could have an extra hour of sleep and less friction,” CNBC reported.

Did these stupid motherfuckers read their own ad??

No commute and extra sleep? That sounds great!

No wonder everyone is trying to WFH - the very same reasons you just listed.

Never pay your employer to do your job, are we in another great depression?

It may be cheaper than a hotel or apartment, but why should an employee have to pay to go to work when they could be working remotely?

In other news, Google opens the cheapest hotel in California

No way. I don't want my employer to also be my landlord. Nothing good could come of that.

isnt this the opposite direction prospective employees would be going? who the hell is looking to live at their job?

Next up will be these tech companies offering company script to buy things at the company store while paying that rent to the company room. You know, to help transition into the new indentured working environment.

Reminds me of company towns. We're definitely regressing.

Wait till they start 3 shift bed rotation like in chinese factories. For the discounted price of 59.99

All these comments comparing this to company scrip are profoundly ignorant, and are downright insulting to the victims of robber barons and capitalism in Appalachia. Google pays salaries in USD. They don't pay a worker 10 GoogleBucks per ton. Google doesn't force their workers to live at Google tenements or stay at Google hotels. Hell, they don't even force you to go into a Google office. All they'll do is make a note on your "permanent record" at performance review time if you were in the office less than 60% of the time. In coal country, if you showed up at a picket line instead of the mine, they'd send in Pinkerton goons to murder you, and the mayor too.

Call me a bootlicker, I don't care, but I actually think this is brilliant on Google's part. Median rent in Mountain View for a 1br is $3600/mo. They're renting rooms to their high-paid employees for ~15% less than market rent, right on campus, avoiding them from pricing out another local family if all they need is a place to sleep. Sillycon Valley is a terrible place to live. It's a place to go for a couple years, make a bunch of money, live worse than a broke student, and GTFO as soon as possible. It's like working on an offshore oil rig, with the gender ratio to match...

Unlike the coal towns' usurious pricing to a captive market (another day older and deeper in debt), Google is almost certainly losing money on this hotel. They don't care. They shell out twice as much for a temporary apartment with every corporate relocation package they give to new hires.

Google would like to build more market rate housing to meet demand. Unfortunately, building any new housing is illegal because the real estate cartel runs City Council, so Google takes over an existing hotel and prices it like an apartment. It's the reverse Airbnb. You love to see it. It's not a silver bullet. There are no silver bullets when the cartel cornered the local housing market 15 years ago, but every little bit to undermine their stranglehold on power helps. FDR and Stalin were natural enemies, and yet they both recognized in that moment, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Same goes here. Critical support for Google.

New product: Google Landlord

Also, just based on the fact that they're a data analytics and AI company, and their public privacy and security track record with their services, I'd genuinely be worried what kind of "guest experience analytics" is going on at that "hotel." Is there a camera in the shower? You don't know.

Everyone who pays that is a dumbass. I'd rather sleep in my car or spend that money at a regular hotel not associated with my employer.

Sillicon Valley reinvents Company Scrip.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_scrip#Lumber_company_scrip

I remember my internship at google 10y ago, with all the free perks, service to make you forget about chores, the cool attitude, etc...

Didn't gage company towns making a comeback on my 2023 Bingo card

Saint Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can't go

I owe my soul to the company store

Meanwhile, at my government job, we are paying people to live in our government supplied houses because we need people on sight.

We've gone from "work from home" back to "live from work" at an astounding pace. That's... good? No, wait, the opposite. Fuck this society and the parasitic husks who direct it in this manner.

God this dystopia is so boring

$99 a night for company rooms? Around here we can get a shitty room, AND a hooker for that price. Not to mention drugs being readily available in the parking lot.