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Re:Nest is acquiring Dropcam by spacehome on Friday June 20, 2014 @09:55PM (#7923854)
Except for the fact it's nothing like that at all. The perks are free, and employees are generally paid well - when compared to other professions, if, perhaps not their value add.
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Re:Nest is acquiring Dropcam by insaneirish on Friday June 20, 2014 @10:35PM (#7923938)
> The perks are free

Haha.

That's cute.

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Re:Nest is acquiring Dropcam by logn on Saturday June 21, 2014 @05:20AM (#7924543)
The problem with the "company store" was that they paid employees less than their cost of living. And the store sold them items on credit, thus they could never leave the company. This hardly applies to Google or their peers unless you consider the pain of doing your own laundry and cooking your own meals as comparable to crushing debt; which it's not.
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Re:Nest is acquiring Dropcam by smm2000 on Saturday June 21, 2014 @12:27AM (#7924192)
Perks are at least 60% free because company pays for them with pre-tax money (no income tax/payroll taxes).
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Re:Nest is acquiring Dropcam by spacehome on Sunday June 22, 2014 @08:00PM (#7929613)
I'm not sure what you're getting at.
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