GOOGLE...Is there anything you can't do with Google nowadays? The $75 billion tech GIANT is famous for providing you instantly any kind of information and news you may be seeking, has the most credible email app for Android, the best by far web mapping service online, while it has also produced the fastest freeware web browser in history (I am talking about you Google Chrome).
According to Fortune, Google's also the undisputed champion of America’s Best Companies to Work For. But why...Did you ever wonder? Well, truth is that there are many reasons why Google's a great place to work but there's a particular "macabre" reason that stands out the most. Want to know? Follow me!
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Money won't buy you happiness and we all know that. However, money can "buy" you a sense of security and confidence and Google knows all about that. That's why its founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, made sure that dying while working for Google should be equally great to living and working for Google.
See, working for Google is great as the company's employees are some of the highest paid folks in the tech industry. To get an idea how awesome it is working for Google, keep in mind that the Company's Bangalore office has a nap room. The workers are offered door to door cab services and office gatherings can take place anywhere between Hawaii, Seychelles or the Maldives.
And to think about it, dying for Google may be even greater ....Well, only for the dead employee's family though.
But, But Why?
During an interview with famed magazine Forbes, Laszlo Bock, Google's Chief People Officer, explained how the company took the term "death benefits" on another level in 2012, when it officially introduced it to its employees.
" If an employee dies while on staff, Google will pay the surviving spouse 50% of the employee's salary for 10 years. That's not all. All each of the employee's children will receive $1,000 a month until they reach the age of 19. One of the things we realized recently was that one of the harshest but most reliable facts of life is that at some point most of us will be confronted with the death of our partners,” Brock told Forbes.
And added, “And it’s a horrible, difficult time no matter what, 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.”
Now, let's do some math. The average salary for a Google employee varies greatly from $90k up to 150k per year. Let's hypothesize that the employee was a good family man with two or three children and voilà, you got a very happy widow right there!
Dear Tupac Shakur (R.I.P.), are you sure that live and die in L.A. is the right spot after all?
***NOTE: I won't be able to vote and comment until tomorrow as my bandwidth limit has exceeded. It's not personal ;)
References:
If You Die While Working at Google, Your Family Will Get Half Your Pay for 10 Years
Google is the best place to be working when you die
Google death benefits pay dead employees' families for 10 years