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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

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 40 points 3 years ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] NatoBoram@lemm.ee 22 points 3 years ago

Anyone who pays that has fuck-you money, they work at Google.

That said, "transition to the hybrid workplace" is something I wouldn't do.

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[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (3 children)

You'd be paying at least two-and-a-half times as much for a regular hotel around there, and it wouldn't be a very nice hotel.

Edit: apparently I'm wrong.

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 3 years ago

and it wouldn’t be a very nice hotel.

I worked at Apple while living 45 miles away about 10y ago. I got into a habit of staying in hotels like the Hilton when I had to pull long hours. The cost was less then than it is now. Even now, a quick search on Google Maps show these hotels to be in the $200 range or less. Probably cheaper on weeknights. It's not one-for-one analogous to Mountain View, but it's the same general area.

I'd rather double the cost and have my own space away from my employer if I had to crash nearby because it didn't make sense to do a long drive. I especially would rather double the cost than give back part of my paycheck to my employer. That's just insane mechanics, imo.

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[–] squidzorz@lemmy.world 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

I thought the same, but it looks like there's actually quite a few nicer options for cheaper

Link to hotels.com search

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[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 1 point 3 years ago

I wonder if hotels have gotten cheaper in the seven years since I've had to travel there for business or if somehow I wasn't finding these.

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

I go to Furcon at a hotel near Google's offices every few years; it's only like $50 more expensive and isn't a shit hole.

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[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 1 point 3 years ago*

I'm surprised. I used to travel there for work about seven years ago and the cheapest I could get then was about $250 a night. But now that I check, the hotels really are cheaper than they used to be. I wonder if that has to do with covid-related changes to where people work.

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