In the movie Con Air, Garland Greene says "What if I told you insane was working fifty hours a week in some office for fifty years at the end of which they tell you to piss off; ending up in some retirement village hoping to die before suffering the indignity of trying to make it to the toilet on time? Wouldn't you consider that to be insane? "
So, corporate execs, at least let the insanity be comfortable. I think that Google is doing a splendid job.
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Google has bring your parents to work day. I guess they start them on the path to insanity younger...
...be evil in the way it monetizes our data, even though not as bad as facebook, at least it treats its employees well.
Better than most American execs where the sole leadership motto is: "The floggings will continue until morale improves."
Better than most American execs where the sole leadership motto is: "The floggings will continue until morale improves."
...but I doubt that will last forever. (Remember PeopleSoft?) Some day, Google will face more competition or the environment will change and that level of lavishness will slowly disappear.
I wish there was a bike lane in my office. A nice work environment makes a difference. I hate being in a cubicle farm. Especially since the design is so dumb.
There is a philosophy of pleasing people to get results. The problem with this is that if you start pleasing a bunch of idiots(sorry I don't know the Politically Correct term these days), all you are doing is encouraging lavish stupidity. If people cannot focus and need distractions, I can understand that to a DEGREE. But there is a remedy for that that I have heard called DISCIPLINE. Great minds have odd ways of finding solutions, but that should not be confused with mass stupidity.
"There have also been studies done on the affect of colors in the office on moods and productivity."
That should be 'effect', not affect. You could say "on how colors in the office affect moods and productivity" but in the sentence as you have it, the effect is the result.
Where was your editor??
That should be 'effect', not affect. You could say "on how colors in the office affect moods and productivity" but in the sentence as you have it, the effect is the result.
Where was your editor??
Most thinking people (unless they are anally-retentive) will understand the context of the post.
all the offices with windows were reserved for rank and file employees. Center offices or windowless offices were either meeting rooms, spare offices or managerial offices.
A very employee friendly company.
A very employee friendly company.
It's easy to have a happy and productive work force when they aren't bothered with support calls from people paying for services that have failed.
I use to work for a certain large DBMS company (it's the one that sponsors an aerobatic stunt plane and a racing yatch) at their Chicago office. They providedcoolers filled with just about any softdrink you might want. Good idea, right? The reality was that it took the better part of 20 minutes to get down to the lobby and back. So by having beverages handy you were effectively kept at your desk for the entire day.
I use to work for a certain large DBMS company (it's the one that sponsors an aerobatic stunt plane and a racing yatch) at their Chicago office. They providedcoolers filled with just about any softdrink you might want. Good idea, right? The reality was that it took the better part of 20 minutes to get down to the lobby and back. So by having beverages handy you were effectively kept at your desk for the entire day.
I was reading an article about the neuroscience program the Aurora shooter had been in (it's a local story for me). One interesting tidbit of info was that they had found the type of cage a mouse is kept in changes the mouse's brain. That means all of the previous brain research (on mice at least) is now suspect.
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