Google Zurich HQ
March 18, 2008
Here’s something a friend sent me a link to… (Someone who’d previously worked here. I think he was taking the piss…). Provoked a number of thoughts and one discovery: if you go to YouTube and search on Google and then a major city you’ll find a short video on working for Google in that city, a walk ’round their office environment and a few talking heads/testimonials. Interesting recruitment angle/corporate culture insight/opportunity for myth making…?As to the firemen’s poles etc. What do you think?http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7290322.stm(Sorry, the above was meant to appear as a link but I can’t figure out how to do that. If anybody knows please let me know. Hopefully you can copy and paste the URL. Thanks.)
Seems a bit weird commenting on your post Carl whilst sat to your left but I suppose that’s how life is heading….
Google have scored a bit of winner there I reckon, I think company’s that invest time and effort into the working environment for their employees add loyalty, without a doubt — I think though, the slide and fireman’s (oops, fireperson’s) slide is a bit… how old?
CAVEAT: All the above is not in anyway a swipe at Klamath House….
So, if not the fireman’s pole, what would you want to see in Klamath House? If we were to shoot a short video about our work place as a cradle of ideas and creativity, what would it feature?
A moat of water around the interior edges of the building with fish in — when bored you could drop over a line and fish.
I went to a restaurant in Tokyo where you sat in a boat in the middle of the room and fished for your supper, when caught they ran off with the fish and brought it back cooked for your liking.