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Google's employee pampering caught in pictures

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It's no secret that Google will go to great lengths to allow its employees to focus on their work.

Time.com is now offering a photo essay on its website that shows life inside the Googleplex, as the company's campus is often called.

The best photo if you ask me is that of a life guard sitting next to a swim-in-place pool where a Google employee is swimming. The guy couldn't look more bored, and in the extreme demonstrates the gap between Silicon Valley's highly paid knowledge workers and the maintenance crews that allow them to maintain their Californian lifestyles.


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Photo courtesey of Google

Tags: google, googleplex

24 Feb 2006

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<p>A picture is worth a thousand words. I am a Headhunter in the Silicon Valley and would love a photo album to show my candidates. Kind of like Office Space (preview) Pix's of ugly cubes, goofy managers, etc.</p> <p>The other think that I really love are these<br /> adorable no answer brain teasers that google, microsoft etc. subject their candidates to on interviews (out of the box thinking, give me a break). </p> <p>Either would be greatly appreciated.</p>

Posted by: Gotcha 02 Mar 2006

<p>This is the sort of thing where you look and think, "Swim in place? That's gay," and then you realize you have nothing in comparison at your own workplace. Pitiful existence, really.</p>

Posted by: Lelia Katherine Thomas 25 Feb 2006

<p>I don't think the life guard is bored. Looking at the photograph closely, the employee is looking at something he's doing with his two hands.</p> <p>It is my opinion, he's using a laptop which is hidden by his feet. I would say he's concentrated in a computer job which is different from being bored.</p> <p>Being a Google site, I wouldn't be surprised if the employee is programming a Google product. Who knows?</p> <p>Cheers,</p> <p>Omar.-</p>

Posted by: Omar Upegui R. 24 Feb 2006

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