Google's swanky new building at Alphabet's headquarters in Mountain View, California, has been “suffering from unreliable and unreliable Wi-Fi at best for months,” according to Reuters with knowledge of the matter. The report cited six people involved. “Collaborative workspaces with recliners don't work well for teams who carry laptops around because employees need to connect to an Ethernet cable at their desks to get consistent internet service. Some people get by by using it as a hotspot.'' From the report: The company describes the new building and the It promoted the campus around it.
However, a Google spokesperson acknowledged that “Bayview is experiencing Wi-Fi connectivity issues.” He said Google has “made several improvements to address this issue” and that the company expects to have a fix in the coming weeks. An AI engineer assigned to the building, which also houses members of its advertising team, said his unreliable Wi-Fi didn't help Google as it pushed for a three-day week mandate. “You would think that the world's leading Internet company would have solved this,” he says.
Managers are encouraging employees to take a walk outside or sit in an adjacent cafe with a strong Wi-Fi signal. Some have recently issued new laptops with more powerful Wi-Fi chips. Google hasn't disclosed the cause of the Wi-Fi problems, but employees say the 600,000-square-foot building's swooping, undulating rooftop is engulfing broadband like the Bermuda Triangle.