Wednesday 6 March 2013

Google Workplace



Google Workplace
How about imagining  yourself working at Google.Smile Fortune's list magazine and  shows that Google is the Top workplace in the world! Watch and find out why it is the coolest workplace! Indeed its really a giant fun place I wish I belonged to..
Three gourmet meals, a sand volleyball court and $5,000 for employees who buy hybrid cars.
Those are just some of the perks that propelled Google Inc. To the top of Fortune magazine's annual list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For.
The rankings, released Monday, show that the Bay Area information and biotechnology sectors are in the vanguard of worker's friendliness, with more than half a dozen such companies placing in the top 50.
Joining Google, the Mountain View Internet titan, are biotechnology pioneer Genentech (No. 2), computer storage company Network Appliance (No. 6) And computer networking giant Cisco Systems (No. 11). Softwaremaker Adobe Systems (No. 31), accounting software company Intuit (No. 33) and Web portal Yahoo (No. 44) rounded out the Bay Area technology rankings.
And yes, they're all hiring.
Google's leadership was cemented by the glowing reviews employees submitted as part of the Fortune selection process, according to Milton Moskowitz, co-founder of San Francisco's Great Place to Work Institute, which has produced the Fortune list since 1998. Employees overwhelmingly expressed their love of working for the search engine, he said, a fundamental factor in determining which companies appear in the rankings.
"There's lots of fun and games there," Moskowitz said of Google. "People come to work sometimes in their pajamas, some in their tuxedos, some can work on their own stuff, they have freedom to explore and enjoy life there."
Google, founded in 1998 by two Stanford University graduate students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, is legendary for pampering workers. Little expense is spared to keep workers happy, helping make the company a magnet for 1,300 job applications per day.
Free gourmet food is served at the Mountain View headquarters from 11 cafes, each serving different kinds of cuisine including organic salads, Indian fare and Chinese food. Snack bars stocked with an endless supply of candy and drinks are scattered around the office, contributing to the expanding waistlines of more than a few employees. Those extra pounds are often wryly referred to as the "Google 15."
Workers also get access to free laundry machines, on-site doctors and a concierge who can arrange dinner reservations. New parents can be reimbursed for up to $500 for takeout meals during the first four weeks they are with their babies.
Helping Google underwrite its largesse is profit of just over $2 billion during the first nine months of 2006. The company claims the perks pay for themselves by recruiting and higher productivity. The free food was originally offered so that workers would stay at work for lunch and therefore spend more time at their desks.
These perks are going disproportionately to men. Fortune's report noted that women make up just 31 percent of Google workforce, which reflects a broader gender gap in the tech industry.
Only companies that are at least 7 years old and employ more than 1,000 workers qualify for the Fortune list. This is the first time that Google, founded nine years ago, submitted a complete application, according to Moskowitz. South San Francisco's Genentech finished first last year.
In all, Fortune considered 446 companies. Rankings were overwhelmingly based on the results of 57-question surveys given to a minimum of 400 randomly selected workers at each company.
The survey showed that relatively few companies still cover 100 percent of health insurance premiums. Only 16 of the 100 said they offer complete coverage, none of them in the Bay Area.
Bay Area companies that fell off the Fortune 100 list of best workplaces were chipmaker Intel, business software maker Autodesk and the law firm Morrison & Foerster.
Moskowitz declined to explain their absence. Nor would he say which prominent Bay Area companies failed to apply.
Dan Warmenhoven, chief executive of Network Appliance in Sunnyvale, was pleased with his company's rise to No. 6 in the rankings, up from No. 27 last year. He said his company made a number of changes in the past year that helped make his already employee-friendly company more so.
Parents of autistic children now get financial assistance, as do parents who adopt. The company also better advertised its flexible work hours, a now popular program that is used by 95 percent of the staff.
Asked whether he planned to outdo Google in terms of perks, Warmenhoven chuckled. Workers, he emphasized, base their opinions of employers on whether they are trustworthy and whether the business is on the right track.
In any case, he said "free gourmet food, 24 hours a day, probably isn't going to happen." He's looking at the cost and it's too expensive.

Wow! Isn't that awesome? I wouldn't mind working even as a cleaning lady at Google Laughing (lol!) have fun everyone!
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