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It's so people know who the staff are when they need help in the cafe.


And who the cleaners and gardeners and menials are. The ones not allowed in the nice places except to clean them and get out.

Overall Google employs roughly equal number of staff and contractors, the latter are in significantly different terms of employment. The functional maintenance and service staff were an outsource, they many be an in-house now, but you would have to be in denial to pretend they are not an underclass. My visit to mountain view was an eye opener.




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