" Cutting down on desktop PCs and staplers Among the equipment changes, Google is pausing refreshes for laptops, desktop PCs and monitors. It's also "changing how often equipment is replaced," according to internal documents viewed by CNBC. Google employees who are not in engineering roles but require a new laptop will receive a Chromebook by default. Chromebooks are laptops made by Google and use a Google-based operating system called Chrome OS. It's a shift from the range of offerings, such as Apple MacBooks, that were previously available to employees. “It also provides the best opportunity across all of our managed devices to prevent external compromise," one document about the laptop changes said. An employee can no longer expense mobile phones if one is available internally, the document also stated. And employees will need director “or above” approval if they need an accessory that costs more than $1,000 and isn’t available internally. " Ya'll about to be on food stamps. Seems a bit extreme for a tech company. I saw this after refreshing my work laptop to a new M2 Max and upgrading my work phone to an iPhone 14 Pro Max Source: https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/04/03/google-to-cut-down-on-employee-laptops-services-and-staplers-to-save.html
DocuSign stopped hardware replacements since COVID, cut cell expenses last year and put an end to home office reimbursements too. There’s not much choice while the economy is in ruins. But hey at least executives continue to be massively overcompensated for these brave brave cutbacks ❤️
u buy your own laptop replacement?
You can’t, they won’t allow personal devices onto the network.
All these expenses are rounding errors to these companies but can provide great benefits to their employees
Penny-wise, pound-foolish
Not really a huge deal… RIP to non Engineering getting Chromebooks though.
Why? They’re glorified chrome users anyway. What’s the point of wasting MacBook dollars on them. Most engineers also code in the cloud, I’d be ok as an engineer to have a high quality laptop - good screen, keyboard and fast enough to handle 50 to 100 tabs as long as everything can be built and tested in the cloud.
Good point. I guess Chromebooks get a bad rap because of all the super crappy ones we used in school.
What are they thinking?
staplers are a damn money pit
Just stop free food
Let me call sundar
Well well well. Amazon ain’t looking so bad now is it?
ITT: Techbros who can’t survive on 200k TC shame a company for adapting to recession.
200k doesn’t pull shit in America
And yet median US income for those with STEM is around 65K, for others 40K. Source: https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf23315/report/stem-median-wage-and-salary-earnings
Google going the completely wrong direction. Instead of trying to attract the best talent they are becoming more day 2
How’s stripe doing these days?
Pretty solid! Hiring is slowly ramping up. Glad we’re not going public. We’ve got a lot of interesting challenges to solve.