Google Employee Benefits Better Than Others

In a rare interview with Chief People Officer Laszlo Bock we know about that there are no surprise that the Google employee benefits are among the best rather than other company who get best facilities like free haircuts, gourmet food, on-site doctors & many more.

In a rare interview with Chief People Officer Laszlo Bock we know about that there are  no surprise that the Google employee benefits are among the best rather than other company — free haircuts, gourmet food, on-site doctors and high-tech “cleansing” toilets . Moreover, Google created that the latest perk for Googlers extends into the afterlife.

Bock told that in a conversation on the ever-evolving benefits at Google employees, “This might sound ridiculous.” But we’ve announced death benefits at Google.” And we were scheduled for a talk on Google’s enlarging age-gap (the oldest Googler is currently 83 year old); I wanted to know how child and healthcare benefits have evolved as the company has scaled,” according to Bock.

Bock, who joined the company in 2006 after a shift with General Electric, which blew me away by releasing a never before made public perk. An U.S. Googler pass away while under the employ of the 14-year old search giant & their surviving spouse or domestic partner will receive a check for 50% of their salary every year for the next decade as well. 

A Google spokesperson confirms that there’s “no occupancy requirement” for this benefit, which means that the most of their 34 thousand Google employee qualify as well & even more surprising about Google’s offering. 

Bock also says, “One of the things we realized recently that one of the most reliable facts of life is that at some point most of us will be confronted with the death of our partners,” And it’s a horrible when it occur, difficult time no matter and every time we went through this as a company we tried to find ways to help the surviving spouse of the Googler who’d passed away.” 

In addition to the 10-year pay package, which surviving spouses all stocks vested immediately & any children will receive a $1,000 monthly payment from the company until they reach the age of 19 or 23 if the child is a full-time student.

Bock concedes that there’s no benefit to Google but it’s important to the company to help the families through this horrific if inevitable incident occur. From day one, Google has been anticipating the major life events of their employees. 

According to Bock, he said, Sergey Brin got the ball rolling when the company had fewer than 100 employees, who was suggesting that the company could provide a caretaker to each working mom or dad on staff. The company does have on-site child care but has raised its monthly fees significantly in recent years.”

According to a company spokesperson that in maternity & paternity leave, Google benefits are at the head of the pack, a new dads enjoy six weeks of paid leave while moms can take 18 weeks after the birth of a child or even better for having insufficient money of new parents: stocks will continue to vest on your leave.

The connection between maternity benefits & retaining employees is clear to all of employees. 

According to a report in 2008 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of USA, more than 60 percent of men & women in the work force have kids under the age of 6, so solving their needs can mean keeping new parents on board and mostly engaged.

“When we think about [employee] needs at Google, we think less about how old you are & we do about your particular bundle of needs,” Bock says. He also says that for someone who fits with a specific profile, an aging parent to take care of their kids or grandkids to support whatever their clusters of needs are.”

The experts of Google People use three methods to hit into the needs of employees: an annual survey called “Googlegeist” that measures the temperature of employees in every department & analyzes data to identify emerging trends, employee resource groups where like-minded employees share ideas that are connected to HR (Bock says the most active are the “Grayglers,” the self-titled club for over the hill Googlers) and email aliases that run the gamut from financial advice to childcare options to café feedback.

Bock says that Google gets a lot of press for its perks  and also says, “People say  that you’re Google’s employee, of course you can offer these crazy things like these, it’s not even about the money. There is, of course that research show employee benefit programs like ours can improve retention & appear to improve performance on some level.

But it turns out the reason we’re doing these things for employees because it’s important to the every business perspective, but simply because it’s the right thing to do so. When it comes down to its better work for a company who cares about you than a company who doesn’t care. And from a company point of view that makes it better to care than not to care.