Playground for an office???...ummmm YES please!

Organizational culture of GOOGLE

Many of us "employees" wake up grouchy, miserable, and already wanting to come home when we haven't even left the house to go to work. Wouldn't it be nice to wake up early and look forward to go to your so called "office" ? Well dreams do come true, Google offices are created in a certain way to cater to their employees. They are not your typical offices where you are in a cubical sitting down staring at a computer all day, they are much more exciting than that! Like mentioned in the article, Google has created an atmosphere to "...lure top tech talent to its Mountain View headquarters", and they have been very successful at it by taking a spot in the "Fortunes list of 100 best companies to work for".

 When it comes to Google organizational culture, they look for and hire individuals not based on there experience but based on who they are and what they have to offer the company with their abilities like said on google. com "We hire people who are smart and determined, and we favor ability over experience.Although Googlers share common goals and visions for the company, we hail from all walks of life and speak dozens of languages, reflecting the global audience that we serve".  Google believes that their employees should be comfortable in there work environment so they can be able to come up with new ideas and feel comfortable enough to share among st the other colleagues. Google, like mentioned in the article, is known as the "King of Corporate Perks", the offices of Google or should I say "Googleplex", is designed to cater to their employees. Googleplex has many things to offer such as FREE haircuts, on site doctors, Japanese toto toilets, endless lap pools, conference bike, Free meals (3), a giant ball pit, and of course a really nice pay check. 


Even though the Google offices may seem like a giant play ground, they still get down to business just not in a up tight way. It may seem that all they are doing all day is playing in giant ball pits and eating gourmet meals, but we have to keep in mind that thanks to these individuals we have google.com to answer all our questions and it is one of the fastest growing search engine.

These articles gave me the inside scoop on what really happens at the google offices and that people don't lie when they say that they have slides and play video games during work. Obviously this technique of creating a very chill, friendly, stress- free enviorment at the office has really worked and proved that the company culture has a lot to do with why they chose to do this.

If any one is interested to work for google and feel like there culture fits you, don't hesitate to become what they say a "googler", you never know you might be the one playing and eating gourmet food next week!

Questions:

1. What companies do you think should have a work environment like google, and would those companies be more successful?

2. What would be the pro's and con's of having a culture where you do not need experience to work for a high end company such as google?