{"id":17664,"date":"2018-01-08T06:37:08","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T06:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=17664"},"modified":"2018-01-08T06:37:08","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T06:37:08","slug":"google-employees-lose-nearly-250-gbikes-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/google-employees-lose-nearly-250-gbikes-a-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Google employees lose nearly 250 Gbikes a week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco : Technology giant Google loses between 100 and 250 of its colourful employee bicycles a week from its campus, the media reported.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17669\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17669\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/62397442_01-1-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17669\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/62397442_01-1-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/62397442_01-1.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17669\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Google&#8217;s Gbikes<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nGoogle maintains roughly 1,100 free, two-wheelers with yellow frames, red baskets and green and blue wheels, known as Gbikes, for its employees to get around its sprawling campus.<\/p>\n<p>However, according to company estimates, its bikes consistently go missing from its campus-between 100 and 250 a week, typically costing $100 to $300.<br \/>\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- punjabnews24 --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6565419310935097\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"6948863062\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><br \/>\nThe bikes have shown up at local schools, in neighbours&#8217; lawns, at the bottom of the town creek and on the roof of a sports pub.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The disappearances often aren&#8217;t the work of ordinary thieves, however. Many residents of Mountain View, a city of 80,000 that has effectively become Google&#8217;s company town, see the employee perk as a community service,&#8221; the Wall Street Journal reported on January 5.<\/p>\n<p>A decade ago, Google started Silicon Valley&#8217;s first corporate bike programme, which was adopted by at least 16 others across the US, including at Apple, Facebook, and Walmart, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>The company recently equipped about a third of its 1,100 bikes with GPS trackers, which revealed that the two-wheelers take an average 12 trips and travel six miles a day.<br \/>\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- punjabnews24 --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6565419310935097\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"6948863062\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><br \/>\nIt now also has a team of 30 Google contractors and five vans who are tasked with retrieving Gbikes. They carry waders and grappling hooks for pulling bikes out of a creek.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Google isn&#8217;t entirely sure how many bikes it loses outright. From July to November, Google recovered between 70 and 190 bikes a week, or roughly two-thirds of the bikes reported off campus. The other third wasn&#8217;t there when contractors arrived to retrieve them, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Google is also testing versions that employees could unlock with their smartphones.<\/p>\n<p>According to Google managers, reducing thefts is a struggle because they often cannot tell whether riders are among the company&#8217;s employees or not.<br \/>\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- punjabnews24 --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6565419310935097\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"6948863062\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco : Technology giant Google loses between 100 and 250 of its colourful employee bicycles a week from its campus, the media reported. Google maintains roughly 1,100 free, two-wheelers with yellow frames, red baskets and green and blue wheels, known as Gbikes, for its employees to get around its sprawling campus. 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