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Aussie Billionaire Bans Workers from Leaving Office for Coffee and Lunch

ibtimes.co.uk

>Ellison provides on-site amenities like daycare to encourage employees to stay in the office

>"I don't want them walking down the road for a cup of coffee; we figured out a few years ago how much that costs," Ellison explained. "Wandering out around lunchtime, we've got a restaurant in there [the office], we've also got a gym, and we've got other facilities that keep them glued in there," he added.

If your place of work is regulating what you do on your lunch break it should be paid. If you are not paying me for my 30 minute lunch break I should be allowed to do whatever I need to as long as I am back at my work station when it is time to get back to work.

If my salary is sufficient to account for deficiencies in benefits I'm happy to make allowances. If not it's time to move on. I don't care whether part of it is earmarked to cover for specific ones or not.

These are salaried employees.

Does this person come to the office 5 days a week? That is not mentioned in the article.

I thought "company towns" were a relic of the 19th century?

There are some hard industrial employers who are completely non-generous, and require 12-hour shifts along with weekly overtime. Sometimes in a very harsh industrial environment.

At least they get paid for all the time they are spending inside the gate, routinely logged in.

Healthcare is the same way, but I got the impression this is a typical office environment.

That's common in many industries. Oil and gas, nursing, etc. 2 shift changes per day is an improvement over 3 shift changes.

I'd walk.

You'd walk from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41437295

He seems to regard his employees as his slaves.

by giving them free food/gym/childcare on site? Oh the horror

Where does it say these are free?

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