As the COVID-19 pandemic starts to settle down in some parts of the globe, Google is returning its employees to in-person offices. Now, Google is offering up access to electric scooters for its employees to assist in daily commutes.
To motivate employees to return to the office, Google is offering free electric scooters to them. The tech giant always offered free shuttle bus service to its employees in Silicon Valley.
Google has partnered with e-scooter manufacturer Unagi to launch the new “Ride Scoot” program. The program lets most of Google’s US-based employees get reimbursed for the full cost of a monthly subscription to Unagi’s stylish Model One scooter, which retails for $990 roughly around Rs 75,000.
The founder of Unagi and CEO David Hyman said that the idea behind the Ride Scoot program is to help Google employees get back to work or at least closer to the bus stop to commute to office without any hassle.
The program is set up for Google employees at Mountain View headquarters and other US-based locations such as Seattle, Kirkland, Irvine, Sunnyvale, Playa Vista, Austin, and New York City.
The program is aimed to either help the employee get to work or to a bus stop, such as Google’s shuttle service. But the real goal, it seems, is to ease the effort required to go back to the office.
David Hyman further said, “They know there’s apprehension amongst employees. People got really accustomed to working from home. And they’re just trying to do everything they can to improve the experience of coming back.”
Across employers, traveling to work remains one of the biggest concerns about heading back to the office. It has to be seen whether free scooters will excite Googlers about resuming in-office work three days a week.
