According to Reuters, employees at Google’s newest office in San Francisco have been dealing with poor WiFi for months and must rely on an Ethernet connection to get work done reliably.
The tech giant’s Bayview building in Mountain View has “been suffering from inoperable or, at best, unreliable Wi-Fi for months,” Reuters wrote.
Google employees are using Ethernet cables and phone hotspots, and some have been told to work from attached cafes or walk outside to improve connectivity, Reuters reported.
Employees have a theory that the Internet is to blame. As Reuters’ Greg Bensinger wrote, the shape of the internet’s roof is eating up the airwaves like a “Bermuda Triangle.”
According to Reuters, staff blamed the peaked shape of the roof for drowning out Wi-Fi signals.
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Google’s Bayview headquarters, which opened in March 2022, is the company’s first large-scale office space designed and built in-house.
The stylish 600,000-square-foot campus includes many perks and extras, including an on-campus hotel, a laundry room, a stationary bike that can be used to charge your cell phone, and a roof fitted with a “Dragon Scale Solar Skin.” . Provides power to the building.
Based on the view inside, you can see how the theory of a Wi-Fi-sucking roof emerged. Google’s first video showing the campus shows giant curved panels towering over an outdoor office space the company calls the “Team District.”
A Google spokesperson told Reuters that “Bayview is experiencing WiFi connectivity issues,” and that the company is working on a fix.
Google has been asking employees to return to the office at least three days a week since April 2022, at a time when many tech companies still had remote work policies.
A racial bias controversy in the company’s new generative artificial intelligence Gemini led to a $90 billion sale of the company’s stock in February, and bad WiFi is one of the least worrying things these days. .
Business Insider’s Hugh Langley and Lara O’Reilly say the tech company is ahead of the competition, especially as new AI technologies sweep the world and call into question Silicon Valley’s status as a wonder child. He writes that he is having a hard time going.
Google did not immediately respond to Business Insider’s request for comment sent outside of normal business hours.
