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I completely understand cutting a chrome panda and eliminating open bar on Friday nights, but things like an employee shuttle seem like a solid use of company money to increase real productivity. Time spent driving a car or navigating a few bus/train connections just can't be that productive. A comfy bus straight to the office (probably with WiFi)? Yes.

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Dropbox's employee shuttles ran a very limited schedule and only to the Marina and Mission from their Mission Bay office. When the company was smaller it may have been more practical but over time as hiring picked up a larger percentage of employees didn't live in these two areas. Spending so much on a shrinking percentage of headcount wasn't reasonable especially since the majority of employees were paying their own commute costs, often from the South or East Bay.

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