I found the $25K per employee per year estimate difficult as well. However, having been at Google while things were being &#x27;scaled back&#x27; I did get a chance to see how some money was not being well spent.<p>I am constrained from giving exact details however snacks (at least at the time) ended up going through a number of distribution &quot;hands&quot; each adding a bit of mark up which was doubling or tripling the cost to the company. At the scale of their consumption direct connections to manufacturers would have cut a ton of expense out of the snacks.<p>Still, if we assume that the number does <i>not</i> include the wages for 11 paid days off and 2 weeks of vacation, (nominally &quot;perks&quot;) 25,000 &#x2F; 50 weeks is an even 500 a week or $100 a day in consumables. Paying for additional staff for massages etc adds up quickly but its tough to hit those numbers.