More dot-coms are embracing the idea of drinking at work

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by tobych • 15 years ago

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jleyank• 15 years ago

This kind of behavior will last until somebody has an accident on the drive home. Once the company is sued for "providing alcohol", it will be too risky to continue. Folks outside the US might be sensible, but inside... No.

kovar2• 15 years ago

This happened during the dot com era. Beer busts, Friday afternoons initially, but expanding into other time slots, were the norm. Then HR and legal started looking at liability issues and the frequency of such events dropped off. We'd go out to local bars instead, and there the workday ended.

Companies do a lot to keep employees at, or near, their desks to get additional work out of them. Some of these benefits appear to work well, but I have doubts about providing alcohol. Productivity drops, inhibitions drop, liability rises. Better to say "Ok, time to go home, or at least elsewhere."

natnat2• 15 years ago

>"Many people can work after one beer, but I doubt many people can do serious knowledge work very productively after four or five."

This might just be because I'm a student, but I can't remember the last time I got any serious coding done before five in the afternoon.

kovar2• 15 years ago

The issue is inebriation, not time of day ....

natnat2• 15 years ago

Whoops, I totally misread that.

mohoyt• 15 years ago

This brings to mind only one thing, http://xkcd.com/323/

More dot-coms are embracing the idea of drinking at work

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