Work Reform

Even the "facilities" they offered before were meant for achieving one objective whilst claiming to have a different purpose, like Google's "relax areas" which the techies never had time to use and whose purpose was actually to attract candidates by projecting the idea that Google was a relaxed work environment (rather than the neverending death march it has been for more than a decade) or their free shuttles to work so that people actually worked during their commute without that being counted as work time which were sold as being to help Google employees with their commute.

I was in Tech back in the 90s bubble and already back then things like the Aeron chairs, office get togethers and pizza parties were just hypocrite ploys to get people to work long hours for free and to make their office the center of their social life so that they would be less likely to move jobs.

Companies expecting you to put in 50, 60, 80+ hours a week, don't actually care about you or your well being and all their non-monetary "benefits" should be examined with a skeptical eye and the assumption that they'll gain from it in some way until proven otherwise: it's not always selfish and sometimes one's direct manager genuinelly wants people on the team to feel good: a good way to spot it is how reacted if you say "not interested, I'll just take that as time off instead" - if they're ok with it, then it's genuine good will, if they try and pressure you or refuse the time off part the whole thing was meant to serve objectives other than what's good for team members - but anything coming down from HR or upper management is certain to be some kind of ploy to directly or indirectly benefit the company.