Employee Treatment Lessons From Google
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How often do you hear someone complain about their job? All the time is the correct answer. Nearly every employer wants their workers to be comfortable and happy with their work. Why? Well for a start, a ‘content’ worker is more productive and less likely to be dis-loyal to the organisation and eventually leave for greener pastures. Fortune Magazine reckons that Google is the best place to work, full stop. Google’s ethic is that work should be challenging and the challenge should be fun. No wonder they receive over 1300 CVs per day.
For an Employer, looking in towards Google can teach you many things about looking after your people. Google is famous for its company culture which is based around creativity, idea and innovation. They have become known for providing free, gourmet breakfasts and lunches, kitchens on every floor, a gym allowance (with on-site showers in the office building), lockers, bicycle racks and on-site massage. Recently, they’ve added a travel allowance to help employees save on transportation costs.
Employees of Google are encouraged to contribute business ideas. This includes engineers and other employees raging from Tech ideas to non-tech ideas. Google listens to, considers, and if it makes sense implements new, fresh, and innovative ideas. Have a look at the Top 10 Reasons to Work at Google.
It is big on employee benefits; they know that benefits attract talent. Benefits enable employees to focus on work and innovation which has proven to increase productivity. The tailored packages cover Health and Wellness, Retirement and Savings, Holidays and loads more.
London’s GooglePlex occupies three floors - more than 80,000 square feet - of Belgrave House in Victoria, London. Here they employ more than 600 Googlers, including over 100 software engineers, system administrators, technical writers, quality engineers, test engineers, user-experience researchers and product managers. Google also has offices in Manchester and Oxford.
The Direct Sales Advertising teams offer support across several industries including retail, media and entertainment, finance, travel, automotive, business and industrial, technology and consumer products and health-care. Googlers in London work on Google Tools such as AdWords, AdSense, Google Mobile, Google Checkout, Google Earth, Google Maps, and Youtube.
The following video clip looks at working for Google in London:
Like the sound of all this? If the answer is YES then navigate to some Google job openings. Google attracts some of the brightest talents in the world and the company continues to introduce technologies that people cannot live without. Google’s structure and work environment is a lesson in many things, that many employers and business leaders should look to in order to increase their productivity.
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