I am really interested in James blog post of “Everyone wants to work for Google”. Actually, I used to want to work for Google as well. But my thought changed a little bit now.
I definitely agree with James’ comment that Google’s organizational culture and healthy working environment attract higher skilled workers and assist in lower turnover rates. Similarly, I think that good working condition contributes in their organizational culture development and business cohesiveness. In other words, it raises employees’ satisfaction.
However, there is only one Google in the world. It is evident that advanced interior infrastructures lead to a considerable costs. Therefore, Google has to make more profit by increasing product’s price to cover these costs. But for customers, their satisfaction may goes down if the price of product is relatively high. It means customers may not buy products that are too expensive, even though your product with excellent quality and features. So, most companies would like to decrease costs by lower wages and acceptable working environment, and then they provide a low price that mass market is able to afford.
Nowadays, only a few companies like Google provide good working conditions because most companies in the world do not have much money and organizational culture like Google. Furthermore, they concentrate on low price and customer satisfaction more than employee satisfaction.
Article Sources: http://www.forbes.com/sites/meghancasserly/2012/05/11/dream-companies-for-class-2012-everybody-wants-to-work-at-google/
Images: http://slickzine.com/interiors/playful-and-creative-googles-zurich-headquarter/