▲ 1024 ▼ Google is charging its employees $99 a night to stay at its on-campus hotel to help "transition to the hybrid workplace." (gizmodo.com) submitted 3 years ago by AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world 184 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] atticus88th@lemmy.world 28 points 3 years ago (3 children) Sounds illegal until I realized its tech workers who refuse to unionize and think they are getting paid bank but to live like a virtual slave. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 24 points 3 years ago As one in the industry, it's incredibly frustrating. Colleagues have been saying "oh, we get all of these perks and get nice salaries, we don't need a union" while others are bucket-crabbing with "you make big money, why do you need a union?", both overlooking the immense amounts of unpaid overtime that are endemic. Then, there's the push for RTO, which does nothing to benefit employees and would be readily prevented by strong unions. permalink fedilink source parent [–] STUPIDVIPGUY@lemmy.world 10 points 3 years ago it's very easy to ignore social inequities if you spend all your time working for a shitty company making absolute bank permalink fedilink source parent [–] aport@programming.dev 8 points 3 years ago think they are getting paid bank Objectively, they are. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 24 points 3 years ago As one in the industry, it's incredibly frustrating. Colleagues have been saying "oh, we get all of these perks and get nice salaries, we don't need a union" while others are bucket-crabbing with "you make big money, why do you need a union?", both overlooking the immense amounts of unpaid overtime that are endemic. Then, there's the push for RTO, which does nothing to benefit employees and would be readily prevented by strong unions. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] STUPIDVIPGUY@lemmy.world 10 points 3 years ago it's very easy to ignore social inequities if you spend all your time working for a shitty company making absolute bank permalink fedilink source parent
[–] aport@programming.dev 8 points 3 years ago think they are getting paid bank Objectively, they are. permalink fedilink source parent