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Google gets go-ahead to build a huge new neighborhood by Bay Area HQ (www.sfgate.com)

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Google got unanimous approval from Mountain View's city council to build a new 153-acre...

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[–] llama@midwest.social 4 points 2 years ago

Oh boy company towns are back! Now if they would just pay me in Google Play gift cards

[–] HandsHurtLoL@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

This is the opening premise to the book Parable of the Sower - a dystopian novel that in the sequel, many observers have seen greater similarities to the U.S. in 2017-2023 than in The Handmaids Tale - except it was described more like a neighborhood next to something like what we would call an Amazon warehouse.

[–] Borg286@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

This seems to confirm the motivations behind why the company is pushing more for requiring WFH. For a company with global impact and global offices they have kept doubling down on keeping their engineering siloed in Mountain View. It is funny how much better MTV traffic is when Google has Sundar days (days off granted by the CEO). Everybody hates the traffic but it is self-inflicted. The answer is remote, but the behemoth will need to justify it's decisions made 6 years ago