According to recent rankings FORTUNE the best place to work in the U.S. is GOOGLE.
Internationally, A survey last year by the Swedish UNIVERSE a 120.000 academic students of business and engineering 11 of the 12 major economies: U.S., Japan, China, Germany, France, United Kingdom, Italy, Russia, Spain, Canadá and India, GOOGLE also nominating a business as most people want to work.
Not surprisingly Google along with Apple are the most reputable companies or World's Most Admired according to the latest Forbes ranking.
Since its inception GOOGLE broke with the traditional concept of workspace. Their offices are full of color and leisure spaces, with football , ping-pong, etc.. The cafe offers some free supplies, There are even areas to reflect. That of "the boss does not bum, is thinking "has democratized and reaches the employee satin.
One of the flourishing business is GOOGLE cloud computing, defending the profitability of putting content in the cloud. Well, I think this extrapolates to their employees who may be in the cloud a 20% of their working day.
GOOGLE assigned 20% working hours to leisure practices and personal development. In the attached video, Courtesy of Motivation and More,Zapatero proclaims "There is no other personal and professional life, There is only one life, and it is important to be comfortable in both ". It is not the former Spanish president, but Javier Rodriguez Zapatero, the TOP of Google Spain.
GOOGLE is loaded that management style that proclaimed “the company has been washed, breakfast,…” I even met a middle, un manager, that cop any liability extended the ruling to all situations, as "the company is motivated" or "the company is coming up with ideas", etc.. That is all, argued explaining how everything must come to the company.
GOOGLE instead waive any default seems available to employees, just wants his talent even get to the office a little asleep or off. The company handles activate. How? For "motivating" with all kinds of amenities and attractions. This new graduates are happy, teens spread their customs into employment. Explaining that joke vague and indolent posture responding "I'm doing the teen" in GOOGLE turns into "my talent is in reflection".
It seems strange that newly qualified young people vote for GOOGLE, eye but let go of the candy business because it is the playground for jokes. You may be influenced by other very different social and business culture but I find that this style of talent management has serious risks and can lead to a dangerous culture of vested.
The Spanish know enough of this danger after the powerful social rights progress experienced in recent 30 years as if they could be extrapolated to infinity. There comes a time when the growing demands certain financing becomes unsustainable.
Also acquired rights are still being assessed. I remember that as usual Spanish, that is becoming history, of giving a Christmas basket. I worked at a company where employees two consecutive years did reviews on the content of the basket, direction bothered enough to consider whether the cost of the basket multiplied by 400 employees that we were saving the company was also interesting that offered the advantage of eliminating the reviews. What do you think that was the decision? Naturally the basket never heard.
Well, volviendo GOOGLE, I must admit that the requirement of positive creativity can make these approaches work, but we proceed professionally in the real economy not imagine a company devoted to the leisure industry one 20% occupational time. We must be careful lest some consultant extend this best practice the technology to industrial or conventional, since these have been unfortunately temptations to practice in various occasions.
The reconciliation of work and responsibility are very different to playing football. Or is that the average age in GOOGLE does not reach enough that these concepts of social responsibility to charge its real content?
Addressing these issues will also discover that this superbuscador cares about the pursuit of happiness inside the employee. Caramba, what detail! The ideologue is so creative business idea Chade-Meng Tan, an engineer who argues that happiness leads to success, to creativity, the higher yield of talent, which in my opinion should not be an engineer or work in GOOGLE to secure. Also consider that this state is transmitted to others by simply mentally deseárselo the person next to you. In my humble person, vaccinated while so much self-help and goodism, these theories resbalan me softly, I lean mostly symmetrical employment relationship of correspondence between the loyalties and responsibilities drinks company employee and vice versa. However there must be many other people who believe, so the Zenith Publishing has launched the Spanish version of “Search your inner ", Chade-Meng Tan of, for, who wishes, to evaluate these practices googlenización in working life. The publisher offers free of charge 40 first pages of the book.
Self-reflection:
Do you think that these work practices GOOGLE are exportable to other companies?
Are you promote values or else you produce repairs?
I've visited and the actual offices are attractive and carefree but not share the opinion of its TOP because I think that is healthy define professional and personal life , must be a balance and avoid stimulus ” Peter Pan Syndrome business”
Muy bueno eso del “Síndrome del Peter Pan empresarial”. Te lo compro para mi libro. Thanks
Your work environment is fun, different and that is used as “showcase” to attract young people and retain talent but I do not think is replicable regardless of activity.
He visitado varias veces las oficinas de Google en Madrid y es real que tiene espacios divertidos fuera de lo convencional, sin embargo hay que valorarlo en su justa medida y evitar “vender o potenciar el sindrome de Peter Pan”. En mi modesta opinion me parece mejor el entorno que consigue Sanitas se ajusta mas a la realidad profesional.