{"id":17671,"date":"2018-01-09T08:19:43","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T08:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=17671"},"modified":"2018-01-09T08:19:43","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T08:19:43","slug":"google-hired-30-employees-whose-only-job-is-to-retrieve-stolen-gbikes-from-mountain-view-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/google-hired-30-employees-whose-only-job-is-to-retrieve-stolen-gbikes-from-mountain-view-residents\/","title":{"rendered":"Google hired 30 employees whose only job is to retrieve stolen &#8216;Gbikes&#8217; from Mountain View residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google changed Silicon Valley with its free company bikes that help employees get across its giant corporate campus. But locals in Mountain View, California &#8211; where Google is based &#8211; reportedly view the bikes as their own and end up displacing 100 to 250 bikes on a weekly basis. Now Google is trying to cut its losses. It&#8217;s hired a team of 30 contractors to retrieve bikes from around the city, and it is testing other solutions like GPS trackers and bike locks, according to The Wall Street Journal.<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 \/>\nGoogle changed corporate America and Silicon Valley with company perks, like free bikes for employees to get across sprawling office parks.<br \/>\nBut the community of Mountain View, California &#8211; where Google is headquartered &#8211; has caught on, forcing Google to rethink just how &#8220;free&#8221; its bikes really are, The Wall Street Journal reports .<br \/>\nThe company estimates that between 100 and 250 of it&#8217;s 1,100 multi-colored &#8220;Gbikes&#8221; disappear on a weekly basis, and it&#8217;s started to take actions to reduce those numbers.<br \/>\nAmong the solutions, the company hired a team of 30 contractors and five designated vans whose only job is to retrieve Gbikes from around the community, according to The Journal.<br \/>\nGoogle is also testing GPS trackers on some of its bikes, and locks that only Google employees can open using their cell phones, according to the report.<br \/>\nGoogle first launched its bike program in 2007, and switch over to its iconic, multicolored two-wheelers in 2009.<br \/>\nBy 2015, bike sharing switched from a company-wide initiative to an opportunity for Google to change the world. The company launched a $5 million grant to develop more bike-friendly cities, and worked closely with Mountain View to make its local streets as bikable as the city of Copenhagen.<br \/>\nSo it&#8217;s no wonder that the people of Mountain View see the bikes as a &#8220;friendly gesture&#8221; from the company to residents of the city.<br \/>\nMountain View Mayor Ken Rosenberg told The Journal that he used one of the bikes after a meeting on the Google campus, and Sharon Veach, a 68-year-old Mountain View resident, said she sometimes borrows one on her commute to work at Oracle, a Google competitor.<br \/>\nVeach told The Journal that the bikes are &#8220;a reward for having to deal with the buses,&#8221; referencing the hundreds of so-called Google Buses that employees living in San Francisco and surrounding cities use to get to work.<br \/>\n&#8220;I ride a bicycle&#8230;to balance it out,&#8221; Veach told The Journal.<br \/>\nGet the latest Google stock price here.<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>Google changed Silicon Valley with its free company bikes that help employees get across its giant corporate campus. 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