Google employees stay in the hotel to save time
With a new program, Google has encouraged its employees to attend the company’s headquarters in Mountain View. The tech giant now allows its employees to stay in a hotel on Google’s campus for $99 a day, so they don’t have to constantly commute to work or deal with accommodation issues when traveling to Mountain View.
According to CNBC
a memo was recently sent to Google employees touting the benefits of staying at Google’s headquarters hotel. This note says that by staying in this hotel, employees can sleep an hour more in the morning and not commute for a long time daily.
Google Hotel can host 4 thousand employees
The Google Hotel is part of the new Bay View campus with an area of 17 hectares that opened last year and can host 4 thousand employees. The current report says that even in this hotel, breakfast is offered to the company’s forces for free.
However, staying at this hotel is not considered a business trip. This giant of the technology world has announced that the $99 rate for staying at this hotel will remain the same until September 30 (October 8); Therefore, it is not clear exactly what this rate will change in the fall season.
If we assume that a Google employee wants to stay at this hotel for 30 nights, he will have to pay $2,970 for one month. This cost is only slightly lower than the average price of one-bedroom apartments in the San Francisco area. But it is much less expensive than renting a permanent house.
Starting last year, Google again forced employees to return to the office at least three days per week.
The company has also continuously encouraged its employees to adopt a hybrid way of working. Google apparently now considers physical presence in meetings as an advantage in employee performance evaluations.
Despite the company’s best efforts, some employees expressed skepticism about the proposal on internal discussion boards. At $99 per night, the cost of living in the hotel would be about $3,000 per month. Employees pointed out that they paid less for their apartments and that the offer was still too expensive. One employee even suggested that the offer could be a way for Google to reduce the number of hotel rooms available after corporate travel budgets were cut.
Last year, Google began returning most employees to physical offices three days a week, but attendance was still low for several months after the mandatory return to the office.
The company faced pushback from employees, who cited the high cost of housing near offices and higher productivity when working remotely. In June, Google announced new enforcement measures, including using office visits in performance reviews and tracking badge data. The company’s chief human resources officer even asked approved remote workers to reconsider their status and join their colleagues in the office.
