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Welcome to the Views Room, a podcast by Reuters Breaking Views.

I'm Anthony Curry.

Later in the show, we'll be handing over to our colleagues in Asia who have been investigating the case of China's missing mobile

subscribers. They'll also dig into what has been going on at TikTok. But we start this week

by heading to Silicon Valley, where the economic pain warped by the pandemic lockdown is

hitting both the sweet pay and perks tech staff enjoy, as well as the recent increase in office

activism.

Gina Chon joins me from an ever less temporary home office bureau on the West Coast.

Welcome back, Gina. How's it going?

Still living the dream under lockdown.

Yeah, so you're still balancing two working parents and a toddler?

Yes, and my mom is here as well. So, and we're all cramped in a small Stanford housing apartment. That's just, yeah, the dream you're living is indeed one that we all

aspire to. I'd like to have one less child in the apartment night. We are surviving as well as we can. And, you know, it's a luxury problem,

given what lots of people who have to deal with, the actual causes and the effects of this

pandemic are going through. So, you know, we should be thankful for at least. Yes, no, definitely.

But let's, let's move on to the topic at hand, which is how the wonderful perks that your, I suppose

you'll make your contacts in Silicon Valley may now be losing.

So let's just put this in context.

So recently we've seen the likes of Groupon and Yelp, two of the more well-known, longer

standing entities over there,

laying off a lot of staff. And we always, whenever we think of Silicon Valley and well,

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