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.
So people would get champagne after drinking cocktails all day and then hop into their car and drive home? Is it the 50s again or something?
It’s SF, most of them probably take public transportation or Uber
Drive home? Tech job?
Most people who work for tech will never drive to or from work in their life. (I legit wish I had the opportunity where it made sense vs sitting in an hour of traffic)
Funny because all the people I know who work in tech have to go to the office a couple of times a week 🤷
Public transport exists. Even for some (lucky) USians.
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.
“An experiment in 2020s”
???
Motherfucker we are three years into the 2020’s.
This post is a disaster.
It says “An experiment in 2020s incentivizing the workplace as a dot-com-era adult playground where work also” three times.
I get that it’s embedded or whatever, but reading this post was like having a stroke.
Let’s turn offices into apartments and all work from home.
If we make these huge towers, we can have recreation, work and living all under one roof!
You know, I got a full cocktail bar at home as well
Imagine thinking I’d like to travel to work 2-3 hours a day for a fucking cocktail.
I miss the unofficial office pinball tournaments. The CEO, a guy from QA, a sr. support person, and I traded high scores on Deadpool pinball for the better part of a year.
I’m not enough of an alcoholic to be enticed by free alcohol.
No more looking for that Balmer Peak!
