Click to play videoMountainview, California: Does your company encourage you to work on your own projects? Bring your pet to work, or simply go off and play beach volleyball? If yes, then you are probably working for Google.
Working for Google at its headquarters, Googleplex, is like being back at college. That may seem wacky but according to Fortune magazine, this is what made Google the best company to work for in the US. A visit to Googleplex in Mountain View, California, shows why.
There are a lot of perks for the staff: a well-equipped gym, on site massages and medical care. Transport, ranging from company provided scooters and pushbikes, to a massive fleet of shuttle buses. And there is free food. It's all part of a plan to attract the best and the brightest.
“There are great benefits at work that will help me be more productive during the day and have more of a life when I get home,” says Google employee Stacy Savades Sullivan.
The formula is working. Google gets over 3,000 job applications a day. The company seems to have no restrictions on keeping the staff.
Employees get what is called 20 percent time—a chance to spend a day a week working on independent projects. This has spawned some of Google's most successful spinoffs, including Gmail. And at the office, apart from some funky designs that include white tents for colleagues to meet, Googlers appear free to do their work anywhere. An environment designed to encourage employees to be 'Googly'.
The environment allows you to do everything from bring your dogs to work and question authority and work on the type of projects that interest you.
With all the food and all those other benefits, do people leave the company? “That's a great question, I don't know if I can work anywhere after Google. I think after Google, you either have to retire or go into a start up on your own,” says Brett Cosby.
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