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Understanding Business

12th Edition

ISBN:9781259929434

Author:William Nickels

Publisher:William Nickels

Chapter1: Taking Risks And Making Profits Within The Dynamic Business Environment

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Google is a very successful information technology/web search company with more than 21,000 employees working in 77 offices located in 43 countries. It was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Google was incorporated as a privately held company and is a textbook example of modern employee-centric policies and benefits. Google has a wide variety of products and services Like web search, image search, and product searches to blogs, online translations, document sharing and remains on the cutting edge of information technologies and services.Google is a high energy, fast paced work environment. Google employees (called Googlers, in Google's jargon) work hard, yet have fun at the same time. The Mountain View, California headquarter has a college campus-like environment where the qualities of creativity and innovation are decorated. In Google workspaces are full of individuality, and the atmosphere is relaxed. There is neither dress code nor formal daily meetings. Googlers can play beach volleyball, foosball, videogames, pool tables, table tennis, or even roller hockey on the campus, which makes this young population feel like they are still at a college campus rather than being in an office. Google instills in its employees the belief that it is not about the money it is their lifestyle that creates innovative advantage over the competition. They describe themselves as a company that works towards changing the world through teamwork and creative involvement. Employees feel proud to be part of such a venture and they take great pleasure in being a part of the company. Google has many international communities that help them communicate across the organization Google provides its employees a wide range of benefits to make sure that employees are satisfied and are loyal to the company.These benefits include free food, onsite childcare facilities, 100% health care coverage, free transportation services, free laundry anddry cleaning services, and sport facilities. To maintain the company's unique culture. Google has designated a Chief Culture Officerin 2006, who also serves as the Director of Human Resources. The purpose of the Chief Culture Officer is to develop and maintain the culture and work on ways to keep true to the core values that the company was founded on in the beginning-a flat start-uporganization with a collaborative environment.After all the effort and expense, there is no guarantee that Googlers will remain with the company Some drawbacks of Google, from the point of view of ex-employees are long work hours, highly competitive environment poor management, and unfair reward structures, in addition, because of recession and challenging financial times. Google has tried to cut down on some of its benefits to better manage costs in 2008 they announced a price increase of their in-house day care to charge employees 75% more. When Google began cutting employee bonuses in 2008, its employees' productivity and stock prices both fell in early 2009 Google reduced its number of employees by dismissed 140 employees. This strategy, along with significantly decreasing new hires is obviously an unexpected shock to the Googlers and may affect productivity negatively.