When it comes to offering perks to its employees, no company beats Google. After providing its San-Francisco-based employees buses with plush seats and free WiFi, the company is now offering them security too.
Google has hired security guards to look out for the safety of its employees who are based in San Francisco's Mission District.
Reuters has reported that two men "dressed casually in jeans and wearing black ski hats" were spotted monitoring the passengers boarding Google commuter buses at the site of one bus stop in San Francisco's Mission District.
Google's decision to hire security guards for its employees come in the wake of Bay Area residents, who were "angry over tech-boom gentrification," protested violently and broke the window and slashed the tire of one of the buses used by Google to ferry its employees. The residents also held protests in Oakland and San Francisco.
According to many long-time residents of San Francisco, richly compensated workers of big technology companies such as Google, Facebook and Twitter have contributed in hiking the rents to unaffordable levels and have displaced the working class from the city. The protest was led by the unhappy residents who want to stop the displacement.
Technology companies are aware of the tension and this might be a preventive step from Google to protect its workers from any such violence.
Another commuter bus, supposedly used by Apple, was also targeted in December.
Google refused request to comment on the latest developments.
