It's in slightly better taste, and it's even arguably beneficial as an option if any employees actually want to do this, but I think ultimately it's the exact same sin: Normalizing the idea of sleeping at work. It's insidious.
> Just imagine no commute to the office in the morning and instead, you could have an extra hour of sleep and less friction
Cool, you mean by working from home?
No? Oh, you want me to home at work. Gross. People deserve a life away from work.
Definitely nothing nearby at $99/night...maybe East Palo Alto?
Why fixate on $99/night as if Google won't pay for/refund $500/night hotel stays and cover rentals for employees it requested to report to Mountain View? Even if there are no hotels nearby, Im sure there are dozens of hotels within walking distance of a Google shuttle stop all across the bay.
If Google won't pay for your hotel but still expects you to HFW (H@W?), well - that's a little gross.
I disagree - I did a search for "Hotels in Mountain view"[1] and I see no distinction between "residential areas" and hotel areas. I randomly searched for apartments close to 5 hotels, and 4 of them had apartments within 2 blocks. Unfortunately Google's shuttle-stops are confidential so I can't correlate how close some of them are to hotels. Regardless, Google can afford to shuttle its employees
1. https://www.google.com/maps/search/hotels+in+mountain+view/@...
And that really isn’t the point, there are probably no shuttles in MTV other than the Caltrain station one. If we are talking about other areas in the bay, it’s the same.
> And that really isn’t the point, there are probably no shuttles in MTV other than the Caltrain station one. If we are talking about other areas in the bay, it’s the same
Are you suggesting Google, which is headquartered in Mountain View, and runs its own bus lines for employees in the bay, doesn't have shuttle-stops in MTV?! If so, then I don't believe you.
Though TBH, as others note, I doubt this is normally meant for local employees. At some scale, it makes sense for a large company to have their own hotel (either run by them, or contracted out) to host employees traveling in.
And if you've got a hotel like that, you have a certain occupancy rate that separates profit and loss. Advertisements to local employees make sense, in such a situation.
That doesn't probably affect the financials of the hotel though (assuming its financial profit/loss charts are totally independent from google's OpEx)
Take the Stanford Guest House: It is operated by Residential & Dining Enterprises, which is an auxiliary. It is expected to maintain its own financials, and break even (or make a profit) on its own. It's not perfect (for example, accounting for students who get free room & board), but it's largely completely separate.
Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime.
That’s why I sleep on company time.