Google Tracks Its Own Employees As Closely As It Tracks You On The Internet
Farhad Manjoo at Slate takes a deep look at Google's HR and finds a rigorously pragmatic, data obsessive organization. The division, called People Operations (POPS for short) works constantly towards efficiency and cost effectiveness.
He writes:
"At the heart of POPS is a sophisticated employee-data tracking program, an effort to gain empirical certainty about every aspect of Google’s workers’ lives — not just the right level of pay and benefits but also such trivial-sounding details as the optimal size and shape of the cafeteria tables and the length of the lunch lines."
That data goes into things like optimizing the impact and cost effectiveness of Google's legendary perks. For example, the 5 month leave for mothers came after they realized they were losing too many women, and that the losses came primarily from new mothers. The data-based extra 2 months of leave decreased attrition by 50 percent, and ended up costing nothing extra because recruiting in Silicon Valley is so expensive.
That rigorous data collection also goes into
Google's famous for promoting a flat hierarchy. But after extensive data analysis, they found that middle managers are extremely important, and found out ways to improve bad ones.
Google's using
But workplace
It's something more companies will probably look to emulate in the future.
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