Google: #1 Employer
Author: Jenni
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16 Jan 07
Not only is Google the number one search engine, it’s also the best place to work according to Fortune Magazine’s 100 Best Companies to Work For 2007 list.
An intentionally unconventional company, Google understands employees spend long hours on their Mountain View, California campus. To reward their hard work and loyalty, there aren’t many perks Google doesn’t offer. In addition to the conventional child care, concierge and on-site gym, they also offer 11 gourmet cafeterias and enough snack areas to ensure no employee is more than 150 feet away from a food source. All free.
Other amenities include access to five campus doctors compliments of Google, and no cost laundry rooms—even the soap is free. For your car, on-site car washes and oil changes.
Want to bring your dog to work? Sure. Got your eye on a hybrid car? Google will give you $5,000 toward its purchase. Having a baby? They’ll reimburse you up to $500 for take out food your first four weeks at home.
Employees also have a climbing wall, swimming pool, Foosball and a variety of other diversions when they’re ready to take a break.
Beyond fun, food, and personal conveniences, Google puts its money where its mouth is. To reward employee innovation, they offer compensation incentives including special bonuses and a Founders award that can grant an employee millions of dollars.
The word is out, Google treats their employees well. Approximately 1,300 people a day submit a résumé in hopes of witnessing first-hand just how well.
