Wednesday 10 August 2016

How Google Motivates its Employees, Inside Story


When it comes to encouraging or motivating your workers, it can be said undoubtedly that Google stands out from the rest. Google has got the award of ”The Best Company to Work For” in 2014, by Fortune Magazine and Great Place to Work Institute.

Let’s check out how Google pampers its employees while still being able to get out of the box ideas and products from them.

The One-of-a Kind Work Culture


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Google wants to create the happiest, most productive and flexible workplace in the world.

According to the Vice President of people development at Google, “It’s less about the aspiration to be No. 1 in the world, and more that we want our employees and future employees to love it here, because that’s what’s going to make us successful.”

Google founders and management understand that people are successful in their jobs and loyal only if they feel truly valued and deeply supported. The Google work culture with huge and plentiful perks, unconventional and creative office design, amazing freedom, transparency, flexibility are the traits that make it on top of the world.

Attractive Perks, Amazing Benefits


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Alike other companies, Google also offers the common extrinsic benefits such as health insurance, vacation packages, tuition reimbursements, dental benefits, maternity leaves and financial support for legal expenses. Besides these benefits, on-site car wash, dry cleaning, gym, massage therapy, hair stylist, on-site doctor, lunch and dinner for free and much, much more.

Google just wants its employees to work happily – consistent happily.

Workplace Transparency



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As Google is a company that really knows the value of its people and considers them as the biggest asset. This way it helps them to show Googlers that the management trusts every worker with confidentially and values their feedback and judgment.


Freedom to Get Things Done




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Google believes that they can get amazing results from Googlers by giving them a lot of freedom. Every single employee of Google is allowed greater discretion on their working hours and on their other fun activities like going to the gym, appointment with a hair stylist, or a snack break.  Moreover, the company also allows each of its employees to give 20% of his effort to anything they like the most.

Yes anything is okay with Google, provided it is ethical and lawful.

Unconventional Office Interior




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Google is known for its unconventional, weird office designs. The unusual design is because of many purposes including giving space to creative people and engineer to come together, idea generation and triggering the optimum creativity while ensuring employees happiness and satisfaction.

A meeting room has resemblance with a pub, Mountain View resembles California Campus a lot, discussion areas resemble vintage subway cars, and Googlers work stations are much like huge Tinker toys. To create the amazing workplace, everything from roof and floors to the impact of colors of paints are thoroughly analyzed.

With all the fun, freedom, benefits, employee-friendly environment, Googlers usually have heavenly feeling that motivates them to perform their responsibilities industriously. This way they surpass management expectations and always deliver brilliant work.  



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