Google wrote its own Greek tragedy by designing and building a giant new hyperadvanced building with green tech galore to usher employees back into the office—only to find out the wi-fi is bad.
Six people familiar with the situation told Reuters that wi-fi connectivity has been spotty at best in Google's Bay View office in Mountain View, CA, for the last few months.
Employees have been making do by plugging in ethernet cables or working outside: fixes that make it difficult to utilize the "collaboration areas" the company boasted about in its press release touting the campus, which opened in May 2022.
The office supports workers in the advertising and AI departments, with the latter working on developing its highly anticipated chatbot, Gemini (which itself has run into some speed bumps lately.)
Employees blame the building's huge, swooped roof tiles, which are meant to collect rainwater and fitted with dragonscale solar panels. Google admitted there are wi-fi issues, but...