Google

Google is an international technology company whose mission is ‘to organise the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful’.  Since its founding, the company has committed itself to ensuring that employees (known as ‘Googlers’) are ‘able to keep creating, inventing, finding solutions, breaking boundaries, and realising new technologies we never even imagined possible’.

Business Drivers

Google is an international technology company whose mission is ‘to organise the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful’. Since its founding, the company has committed itself to ensuring that employees (known as ‘Googlers’) are ‘able to keep creating, inventing, finding solutions, breaking boundaries, and realising new technologies we never even imagined possible’.

Implementation

The work environment has been designed to challenge and engage employees, including:

• Flat management structure, small teams and performance-related pay, all based on a philosophy based on a ‘positive view of human nature’;
• Significant resources invested in promoting employee learning and development, including ‘Google University’ and a European Learning and Development Team;
• Innovative and fun activities designed to encourage staff to meet, interact and work as a team;

Impact

• The work environment which Google has created has helped to make the company an employer of choice, with approximately 1300 applications received daily and one of the lowest staff turnover rates in the IT industry (5%).
• Google was recognised as the UK’s best place to work in 2008 by the Great Place to Work Institute.

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