http://workforce.com/wpmu/bizmgmt/2008/01/15/an-employee-benefit-you-probably-don%e2%80%99t-offer/ All about the issues that arise when workforce issues converge with business management. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:31:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.3-2.2.1 http://workforce.com/wpmu/bizmgmt/2008/01/15/an-employee-benefit-you-probably-don%e2%80%99t-offer/#comment-9246 Keith Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:57:57 +0000 http://workforce.com/wpmu/bizmgmt/2008/01/15/an-employee-benefit-you-probably-don%e2%80%99t-offer/#comment-9246 Look, whether on paper or not, the restaurants, the shuttles, the dogs and skateboards, the wacky everything is paid for out of the employer branding budget, not the employee productivity budget. And the proof, buried in Google's HR data somewhere, is that they are hiring talent that is doing the impossible... forget what they've done to Yahoo; look what they are doing to Microsoft. Microsoft! 10 years ago would you have ever believed that Microsoft would be wetting their pants today? But they are. Have you looked at what these Google people have done? Look, whether on paper or not, the restaurants, the shuttles, the dogs and skateboards, the wacky everything is paid for out of the employer branding budget, not the employee productivity budget. And the proof, buried in Google’s HR data somewhere, is that they are hiring talent that is doing the impossible… forget what they’ve done to Yahoo; look what they are doing to Microsoft. Microsoft! 10 years ago would you have ever believed that Microsoft would be wetting their pants today? But they are. Have you looked at what these Google people have done?

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