Great Britain: Google named best place to work

Careful selection of employees, who are pampered and stay in the company for a long time : these are the reasons for the keen interesting the young American company. A study carried out by the Great Place to Work Institute placed Google first of the top 50 best companies in Britain, after surveying 1.5 million employees in 4.000 organizations. (Ref. 080466)
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Draconian recruitment process. The institute defines a pleasant workplace as “a place where the employees trust the people they work for, have pride in what they do, and enjoy the people they work with.” Google’s human resources manager, Liane Hornsey, thinks that this award is due to the company’s draconian recruitment policy, with a high staff morale and a very low turnover. “We try very hard to find the right people, people who will fit in with the Google culture, because we believe that if

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