Tech office shuts down its free cocktail bar for employees, CEO says “The office is dead” — An experiment in 2020s, incentivizing the workplace as a dot-com-era adult playground where work also occ…::An experiment in 2020s incentivizing the workplace as a dot-com-era adult playground where work also occurs has ended with a whimper in downtown SF. Tech company Expensify is shutting down its bar, which it opened earlier this year, after six months.

  • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Funny because all the people I know who work in tech have to go to the office a couple of times a week 🤷

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      1 year ago

      Public transport exists. Even for some (lucky) USians.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah but even pre pandemic most the tech jobs were in cities where car was not the preferable commute option.

      I can get into work in 45 minutes by train. If I drive in it’ll take me an hour and 20 or so during rush hour.