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07-28-2017, 03:27 AM
In Silicon Valley, even a place to live is a job perk
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Silicon Valley is famous for outlandish job perks.*
Amenities like foosball tables, nap pods, and ****** pubs are ostensibly meant to lure tech professionals in a cutthroat hiring market. But the more cynical explanation is that they blur the lines between work and home to numb employees to the long hours demanded of them.*
Perhaps, then, it only makes sense that the logical endpoint of this new evolution in ****** culture is the ultimate perk: a home.
SEE ALSO: What Facebook's most 'meaningful' Groups tell us about Zuckerberg's grand vision (http://mashable.com/2017/07/20/facebook-groups-meaningful/)
In a region with a severe lack of affordable housing, companies like Facebook and Google have begun to roll out plans that would effectively turn them into their employees' landlords. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/07/27/facebook-google-housing-for-employees/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Silicon Valley is famous for outlandish job perks.*
Amenities like foosball tables, nap pods, and ****** pubs are ostensibly meant to lure tech professionals in a cutthroat hiring market. But the more cynical explanation is that they blur the lines between work and home to numb employees to the long hours demanded of them.*
Perhaps, then, it only makes sense that the logical endpoint of this new evolution in ****** culture is the ultimate perk: a home.
SEE ALSO: What Facebook's most 'meaningful' Groups tell us about Zuckerberg's grand vision (http://mashable.com/2017/07/20/facebook-groups-meaningful/)
In a region with a severe lack of affordable housing, companies like Facebook and Google have begun to roll out plans that would effectively turn them into their employees' landlords. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/07/27/facebook-google-housing-for-employees/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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