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Google does in fact discourage telecommuting.
Thompson, who co-designed Best Buy's famously liberal and now defunct flexible work policy, said those perks aren't great for employers either.
'They’re getting further away from measurable results more and more about how can we keep people here more. It looks like we’re doing nice things for you, but they’re wasting a lot of money in my opinion," says Thompson.
"If I could get my hands on Google, that’d be fun!" she added.
Thompson created the Results-Only Work Environment (
We've covered similar comments on office perks from post-Marxist theorist Slavoj Žižek. As summarized by architect Andrew Maynard:
Slavoj Žižek argues that modern employment tactics create the illusion that our employer is our friend. This fabrication empowers the employer while denying the employed the right to vocalize and protest dissatisfaction of their working conditions. “You’re not going to stick around and help out? I thought we were a team? I thought we were friends?”