Friday, January 12, 2018
Google hired 30 employees to stop locals from stealing bikes in droves
Becky Peterson reported on this at BusinessInsider.com:
"Google changed Silicon Valley with its free company bikes that help employees get across its giant corporate campus. But locals in Mountain View, California — where Google is based — 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'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."
