Employees at web giant Google not only benefit from fabulous perks,
including gourmet food, on-site doctors and free haircuts, but will also
get new “death benefits”, an official at the firm has revealed.
Google's chief people officer Laszlo Bock has said employees will be
given new "death benefits", which means that they would be covered not just in life, but even after death.
The never-before-released details of the tech giant's ‘perks program’
include an amazing benefit that if a Googler dies while under the tech
giant''s employment, their spouse or life partner will receive 50 per
cent of their salary for the next decade.
“One of the things we realized recently was that one of the harshest
but most reliable facts of life is that at some point most of us will be
confronted with the death of our partners,” News.com.au quoted Bock, as
saying.
According to the report, under the perks scheme, along with 50 per
cent of their partner's salary for a decade, surviving spouses will also
have access to their partner's shares in the company.
It also claimed that ‘benefits’ extend to all employees and do not
require any tenure or accruement, and if a couple has children, they
will receive 1000 dollars a month until the age of 19, or 23 if the
child is a full-time student.
However, a spokesperson for Google Australia was unable to tell
whether the same death benefits extended to the Australian employees of
the firm, but said that the web giant does have “provisions” in the
event of the death of a ‘Googler’.
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