Google doesn’t want employees working remotely anymore

Re:Google doesn’t want employees working remotely anymore by CoastalCoder on Thursday June 08, 2023 @01:05AM (#36237453)

> Add on top of that having a house with a nice garden

Do you mean "garden" in the American sense (an area for growing food and/or decorative plants), or in the British sense (what American's would call a "lawn" or "yard")?

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Re:Google doesn’t want employees working remotely anymore by wiseowise on Thursday June 08, 2023 @01:25AM (#36237592)

Backyard.

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Re:Google doesn’t want employees working remotely anymore by ProxCoques on Thursday June 08, 2023 @02:42AM (#36238127)

OT but I'm British and this is the first I've heard of a garden meaning anything other than an area for growing food and/or decorative plants.

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Re:Google doesn’t want employees working remotely anymore by theodric on Thursday June 08, 2023 @04:35AM (#36238881)

Really? What's your word?

The Irish I talk to all call their private patch of green adjacent their house a 'garden' even if it contains only grass with optional tree. I had assumed they got the word from you guys.

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Re:Google doesn’t want employees working remotely anymore by Macha on Thursday June 08, 2023 @05:51AM (#36239377)

I think the confusion here is from you presenting a "yard" as an alternative, when a yard in UK/Ireland would be a space that's mostly or entirely paved or has some other artifical surface

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