The Good Life At Google

It seems that the employees of Google have been living the good life. I have seen the pictures of the Googleplex work environment it looks like one of the best places on Earth to work. As it turns out, Google has been spending $72 MILLION dollars per year feeding it's employees. That's $7350 per employee to give them 3 chef created meals per day. Wow, that is one hefty benefit.

Your asking yourself, how can they afford that? Well, they make $4.2 billion dollars. When you take that into consideration it doesn't seem that bad. But wait a minute, what about the share holders. Since the big G is a publicly traded company, do the shareholders have anything to say about that?

According to Valleywag, the free dinner program is going bye bye for some. "Google's food cutbacks are more targeted than we'd first heard. Dinner will still be served in buildings which house engineers...Google's only eliminating the evening meal in cafes frequented by nontechnical employees."

The dinner cutback as well as eliminating the tea trolley and the afternoon "snack attack" may not be good for morale but it will definitely add significant dollars to the bottom line. Don't cry for the Googlers just yet. They still receive (free of charge) breakfast AND lunch in quality and quantity fit for a king.

Long live the G.