Google's Best Perk — Transport

Reverse Gear writes "The New York Times has an interesting article about how different kinds of fringe benefits are starting to count more in the fight for the best brains in Silicon Valley. The article mainly focuses on Google's high-tech shuttle-bus system, which is quite extensive, covering a majority of the San Fransisco Bay area. The article quotes a transportation expert opining that Google's may be the largest such private system anywhere. One-quarter of the headquarters employees are now using it. A Google software engineer said: 'They could either charge for the food or cut it altogether... If they cut the shuttle, it would be a disaster.'"

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Re:I don't want perks

[ximenes]

Exactly.

Some of the perks these companies provide might be useful; but I don't want to live my life as some have suggested: living in a corporate apartment, getting to work with corporate transportation, eating at the corporate cafeteria three times a day. From there its a short step in my mind to the return of the company store and the sort of employee dependencies upon that particular company that can easily change into a very bad thing.

Pay me enough to make my own way in the world when I'm not at work. Thats all I want.