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Facebook Tops List of Best Places To Work -- Again (cnet.com)

Posted by msmash on from the what-people-say dept.

From a report: If you work at Facebook, count yourself pretty lucky. And not just for the free meals, on-site health care or new-parent benefits. But those things probably factor into the social-networking giant being named the best place to work in 2018 by jobs site Glassdoor. And it's probably been a good experience for a while, seeing how this is the third year in a row Facebook has been atop Glassdoor's list of 100 best places to work. If you don't work at Facebook, there might still be hope for you. Glassdoor said there were 40 newcomers on this year's list, including video game maker Blizzard Entertainment (at No. 28 on the list) and wireless carrier T-Mobile (No. 79). There are also three veterans that have made the list every year since it was introduced 10 years ago, including management-consulting firm Bain & Company (No. 2), search giant Google (No. 5) and Apple (No. 84).

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  1. It's a company town, Joe... by b0s0z0ku · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Like Bisbee, AZ or Foxconn City.

    Free meals, medical care on site? What's not to like? Pretty soon, they'll put up the housing and you'll never have to leave the company plantation.

    This is why I like living and working in cities -- gives you more random interactions with people, a choice of where to live, work, eat, etc.

    1. Re:It's a company town, Joe... by b0s0z0ku · · Score: 4, Insightful

      The only "perks" I want are a humane amount of vacation time (3-4 weeks, as most of the world gets) and 40 hour weeks. Oh, and good pay. I can find my own social life outside of the company door.

      I don't want to be enticed to live my entire life at work.

    2. Re:It's a company town, Joe... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      The problem with "Perks" is that there is a cost for them to the Company. That cost could just as easily be exchanged for more employee pay so that YOU can choose what "Perks" YOU want to offer yourself. I work at a small company and we have this discussion all the time: "Would you rather have more cash pay or XYZ perk." Every time the result is XYZ perk is great for 3/4 of the people but is worthless for 1/4 and so we continue to opt for more pay, which allows everyone to buy whatever god damn "perk" we want (or even *gasp* save it).

      There are huge problems with offering "Perks" because not everyone uses them or wants to use them. If I don't like the free food and buy my lunch somewhere else every day then I get screwed compared to everyone else. Add all the little perks up and some people are making out like bandits and others feel screwed while a group in the middle is financially indifferent but they have someone else deciding things for them.

      The real reason for perks is more nefarious: 1) It controls the employee by keeping them close to the office for all their "needs" and reduces ability to "take lunch" or otherwise "leave the compound" to find a better job. 2) It is great "free" marketing (see this and other articles talking about how awesome XYZ company is because they give away "XYZ" for "free". No dipshit, its coming out of your pay one way or another. It is not free. 3) Perks can act as a "loss center" to reduce corporate taxes without payroll or other taxes. Its a lot easier for a company to deduct these as "business expenses" than an employee. 4) Makes employees specialized parts in a machine rather than well rounded individuals that can take care of themselves.

      Taken to the extreme, "Perks" are basically the same as slavery: You get your food, water, shelter, and entertainment chosen by the company you work for, at no cost to you. All you have to do is stay in this compound and consume what you are given for "free". Because you earn no cash money, you can't operate outside the company compound.

    3. Re:It's a company town, Joe... by AmiMoJo · · Score: 3, Insightful

      The cost of living in the US is a joke. And by living we include healthcare.

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  2. Ethics by JohnFen · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you work at Facebook, count yourself pretty lucky.

    And lacking a sense a sense of ethics.

  3. Re:Survivors bias? by Bert64 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Many people stay at jobs they hate for all kinds of reasons...

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  4. Re:I get to censor people! WHEE!!! by b0s0z0ku · · Score: 3, Insightful

    (a) FB HQ is not in San Francisco, it's in Menlo Park, closer to San Jose.
    (b) California's residents are fairly centrist. There's just less religious nutbaggery as far as wanting to control what science people learn in school (birth control, sex ed, etc).
    (c) California would do well as the world's (7th?) largest economy if Calexit happens (don't Conservatives want CA out, already?). They'd probably even make a free-trade pact with Mexico just to annoy the Trumpites.