I don't know if this would work, but Google, FB, Apple, et al should try to build out live/work communities. Yeah, kind of like a company town.
The best part of college is the college campus. I don't know why companies don't want to try to replicate that. It would definitely be more appealing to younger employees, and I be it would get them to stick around much longer.
Imagine being able to walk to work, and having most of your coworkers live close by as well. The social bonds you would form with people would be much stronger. And moving to that campus to start at the company would be less scary knowing that you'd quickly get to know and build good relationships with coworkers/neighbors.
Yeah, it would mean earning more money might not actually get you a nicer living arrangement, since you might not have many choices and pretty much everything would be provided for you. I guess you'd want to try to figure out the correct mixture (maybe 40% on campus 60% off).
Campus is fun when you’re 19, but when you hit 35 and want to be more choosey about who you spend your time with, this no longer works. You’d have to multiply my salary by ten to get me to move to that hell.
I never said it should be mandatory, just something employers offer and maybe encourage. Companies have a history of putting people into "corporate housing", which is expensive. You may not like it, but others might.
Most people in the US want to own the house they live in, and most would also want to not move when they move jobs. I think the campus idea would only appeal to younger folks.
I'd also not like the idea that my life revolves around work - and this sounds exactly like that.
A lot of people also don't care about owning a house (at least right now). A lot of people care about forming good relationships, but don't have good ways to do so.
It sounds like you are building an "ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of" a city. Why not just live in the trendy areas of a real city if you want that feeling?
Piling on that this sounds terrible. A case could be made for big tech should build high density housing near their offices, but once it's built, big tech shouldn't own or operate it. Chances are, a good number of people who work nearby would consider living there, but without any of the awful results of having your living arangements tied directly to your working arangements.
In San Francisco, tech workers flooded the city specifically because they refused to live in the various bedroom communities close to their mega-campuses. Hence the widespread emergence of shuttles and satellite offices in city centers.
The best part of college is the college campus. I don't know why companies don't want to try to replicate that. It would definitely be more appealing to younger employees, and I be it would get them to stick around much longer.
Imagine being able to walk to work, and having most of your coworkers live close by as well. The social bonds you would form with people would be much stronger. And moving to that campus to start at the company would be less scary knowing that you'd quickly get to know and build good relationships with coworkers/neighbors.
Yeah, it would mean earning more money might not actually get you a nicer living arrangement, since you might not have many choices and pretty much everything would be provided for you. I guess you'd want to try to figure out the correct mixture (maybe 40% on campus 60% off).