The Bay View office, which opened in March 2022, is the first major office space that Google designed and built on its own. The 600,000 square-foot campus includes various amenities such as an on-campus hotel, a laundry room, and a roof fitted with "dragonscale solar skin" to power the building. However, the company has been facing other challenges, including racial bias controversies in its new AI Gemini, which led to a $90 billion sell-off of company shares in February.
Key takeaways:
- Google's newest office in San Francisco has been experiencing bad WiFi for months, forcing employees to rely on Ethernet connections or phone hot spots.
- Employees theorize that the shape of the building's roof, which is pointed, is causing the WiFi issues by absorbing the signal.
- The Bay View building, which opened in March 2022, is the first major office space that Google designed and built on its own, featuring amenities like an on-campus hotel and a roof fitted with 'dragonscale solar skin'.
- Google has been asking its employees to return to the office at least three days a week since April 2022, despite ongoing WiFi issues and other controversies, such as racial bias in its new AI Gemini.