Having been the purchaser of plans for companies with employees in many states, i can say that it drastically limits the options and increases the costs.
But if you have college kids on your plan, be happy if your company has to do this. A friend whose company had an excellent HMO plan in NJ discovered when his kid had a skiing accident at school in Colorado that although the ER was covered, the regular medical care afterwards was not. It was outrageously expensive.
I suspect more companies are dealing with this if they don’t require employees to be “commutable” even if not in the office daily.
My son’s fiancée is 24 and works for Google in Warsaw. She’s hybrid. The Google office building is quite impressive. Lots of games and food. The pay isn’t great but she and my son are enjoying their time there. They’ve made lots of friends. Her co workers spent time with my son when she was out of the country recently. She would love to work for Google in the US but she’s Syrian so it might be tough.
It is likely based on people with profiles on Zippia who have Google in their profiles. This may not be a representative sample of Google employees.
It probably includes those who had college student intern / co-op jobs at Google, given that 34% of Google employees stay there less than one year (which would seem very odd for a company that is highly desired to work at for those who are not intern / co-op employees).
Also note that this includes all types of employees, not just those in computing.