I have heard from a friend who recruits for Google, they have relaxin spas when employees get too stressed. Amazing.

And I heard you get to sit on a beanbag if you want – you can’t measure the value of that in euros and cents.

Nearly as good as Guinness’s

Giz a job!!!

Don’t forget free dental, medical and life cover for partners (married or not)
NICE! Thanks Google!

This is pretty standard for MNCs

In a previous job, they paid out 3 x salary lump sum, followed 2/3 of salary in monthly pay up to retirement age, even continuing pension contributions so that your spouse would have a pension for your would-be retirement.

Slightly different at my current employer, who pay 4 x salary lump sum and 1/3 of salary + a further 1/6 for each dependent child up to 4 children. So if I had a wife and 4 kids and died while still working here, they would be looked after with my entire salary up to my retirement age.

Seems like a pretty generous perq, and it is, but it’s the other side of a coin where the company has insured themselves against losing you, for the loss of productivity, along with knowledge and experience. It makes sense for professionals who would be involved in medium-long term project work – it can take 18 months to replace a good worker from an experience and productivity perspective.

Sadly, for unskilled workers and skilled manual workers, the company has no major risk in losing replaceable employees, so they neither take out life insurance, nor provide it for the employees.

‘Golden Handcuffs’ is what a Google employee told me in the pub , I work in the same industry, different company, and get to go home at 6pm every evening and see my family ….

not too good if you work for their Motorola division! anyway, do most multinationals not have death in service life assurance to pay a lump sum in the event of death to spouse /kids? I think 10 years at 50% is about right. in this case, google are covering themselves instead of paying Irish life to do it..

You’ll normally find that companies who provide such perks are the ones that expect you to litterally “marry” your job and always put work first. It certainly suits some people, but it’s not for everyone.

Strange. Having grown up with a mother who got to stay at home and take care of us because my father died whilst working for a company with similar provisions, I’ve never before heard it branded ‘death benefits’. It’s pure semantics, of curse, but it feels much nicer as a kid thinking you’re in receipt of ‘survivors benefits.’ Feels more like a perk for your troubles rather than profiting from a dead guy.

These measures sound fantastic, don’t they? They’re not really, though.

The things they do such as the free food, haircuts etc are done purely to keep employees in the building and their minds on the job. This death thing is merely extending that to make it less attractive for staff to leave the company if something good comes along so they’re trying to stop their staff leaving the company career wise and physically during the working day.

The work/life balance at Google is supposed to be atrocious also.

Thanks but no thanks, Google, I’d rather work for a decent company and live a great life outside the place than a great company and a terrible life outside work.

Awesome Google for taking this bold step and showing us there is at least one Corporation out there who cares what happens to its Employees should they croak. Corporations take out life insurance on their Employees and collect they Payout if they die… And refuse to share it with the Family who needs it the most. Check and see if this has happened to you… A** holes &@”-/#%^€¥=}<!%

My comment didn’t post and it’s gone into cyberspace. I am not typing it again.
Thanks Google