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Googler Day Care Woes
Posted by Raven on July 5th, 2008
All’s not well in Google Land.
Two months ago, Google held a series of secret focus groups with employees who have children in Google’s day care facilities. The purpose was to gauge their reaction to the company’s plan to raise the amount it charged for in-house day care by 75 percent.
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As word leaked out about the company’s plan, the Google parents began to fight back. They came up with ideas to save money, used the company’s T.G.I.F. sessions — a weekly meeting for anyone who wanted to ask questions of Google’s top executives — to plead their case, and conducted surveys showing that most parents with children in Google day care would have to leave Google’s facilities and find less expensive child care.
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Do you think you know how this story ends? You’re probably guessing that because it involves “do no evil” Google, Fortune magazine’s “Best Company to Work For” the past two years, this is a heart-warming tale of a good company reversing a dumb decision.If only.
So Google is finally growing up perhaps? And realizing how the real world works, and how in order to stay competitive it must cut back on some of it’s benefits. This is an interesting article and I have to wonder if soon, Google as an employer might rank down there with, say, Wal Mart?
July 5th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
Raven, I started to write a comment, which turned into a post.