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Google’s self-designed office swallows Wi-Fi “like the Bermuda Triangle”

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  • "Why hasn't anyone designed a building like this before?"

    "Oh."

  • Why didn't they send an email to their facilities? How are we supposed to care?

  • 🤖 I'm a bot that provides automatic summaries for articles: ::: spoiler Click here to see the summary Reuters reports that Google's first self-designed office building has "been plagued for months by inoperable or, at best, spotty Wi-Fi, according to six people familiar with the matter."

    At launch, Google's VP of Real Estate & Workplace Services, David Radcliffe, said the site "marks the first time we developed one of our own major campuses, and the process gave us the chance to rethink the very idea of an office."

    The roof is covered in solar cells and collects rainwater while also letting in natural light, and Google calls it the "Gradient Canopy."

    All those peaks and parabolic ceiling sections apparently aren't great for Wi-Fi propagation, with the Reuters report saying that the roof "swallows broadband like the Bermuda Triangle."

    Googlers assigned to the building are making do with Ethernet cables, using phones as hotspots, or working outside, where the Wi-Fi is stronger.

    A Google spokesperson told Reuters the company has already made several improvements and hopes to have a fix in the coming weeks.


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