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peachsss: cubicleparty: theatlantic: Google Keeps Paying Deceased Employees’ Families for a Decade Many of the perks Google famously offers its employees are designed to help those employees enjoy a healthier life. Organic food in the cafeteria! On-site gyms! Subsidized massages! Nap rooms! Turns out, though, that the company also wants its employees to enjoy a better death. More specifically: a wealthier death. In an interview with Forbes’s Meghan Casserly, Laszlo Bock — Google’s, Chief People Officer (in non-Google terms: head of HR) — shares a Google benefit that is all too literally out of this world. “This might sound ridiculous,” Bock tells Casserly. “But we’ve announced death benefits at Google.” Yes. It’s like this: Should someone pass away while employed by Google, that person’s surviving spouse or domestic partner will receive a check for 50 percent of the deceased’s salary. And that spouse or domestic partner will receive that check every year. For the next decade. Read more. [Image: Shutterstock/Viktor Gladkov] Google just flexed on every other tech company in the industry.  While I hate them for their incessant privacy violations, they really know how to treat their workers. Good on you google. 
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Google Keeps Paying Deceased Employees’ Families for a Decade

Many of the perks Google famously offers its employees are designed to help those employees enjoy a healthier life. Organic food in the cafeteria! On-site gyms! Subsidized massages! Nap rooms!

Turns out, though, that the company also wants its employees to enjoy a better death. More specifically: a wealthier death. In an interview with Forbes’s Meghan Casserly, Laszlo Bock — Google’s, Chief People Officer (in non-Google terms: head of HR) — shares a Google benefit that is all too literally out of this world. “This might sound ridiculous,” Bock tells Casserly. “But we’ve announced death benefits at Google.”

Yes. It’s like this: Should someone pass away while employed by Google, that person’s surviving spouse or domestic partner will receive a check for 50 percent of the deceased’s salary. And that spouse or domestic partner will receive that check every year. For the next decade.

Read more. [Image: Shutterstock/Viktor Gladkov]

Google just flexed on every other tech company in the industry. 

While I hate them for their incessant privacy violations, they really know how to treat their workers. Good on you google. 

Source: The Atlantic

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    ummm, i obviously need a job at google…=/
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    An example of efficient delivery of health services via investment from private sector.
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