Goodbye to the Dried Office Mangoes
Google is clawing back its famously lavish employee perks, sending a message that might be more symbolic than practical.
by Will Gottsegen
Apr 26, 2023
4 minutes
Even as the whole of Silicon Valley grapples with historic inflation, a bank crash, and mass layoffs, Google’s woes stand apart. The explosion of ChatGPT and artificial intelligence more broadly has produced something of an existential crisis for the company, a moment for the business. “Am I concerned? Yes,” Sundar Pichai, Google’s CEO, . But Google employees are encountering another problem: “They took away the dried mango,” says a project manager at Google’s San Francisco office, whom I agreed not to name to protect the employee from reprisal. At least at that office, the project manager said, workers are seeing less of long-cherished food items—not
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