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According to foreign media reports, Google will be offered a free maid service, hoping to attract the best engineers in this way.
Google offer employees online services agency TaskRabbit point card. Recent work on the site list includes "laundry and stacked," "Dinner for 2 people to do", "assembled from 4 pieces of furniture to buy IKEA", "buy and send the cake" and "walk the dog." But these services are limited to 5 U.S. cities,laptop battery, including New York and San Francisco Bay Area.
TaskRabbit founder of Liberia Vitebsk (Leah Busque) do not want to reveal too much information, including whether Google set the price cap for these services and whether Google will provide this benefit permanent. However, she confirmed, TaskRabbit way the service will be sponsored by Google employees to provide services.
She also said: "We are working with other companies to provide services to their employees. Employees can get the help they need, while enterprises can improve employee satisfaction and loyalty, and make employees more focused on work. Users services are often required to give the shoe cobbler, including repair, assembling IKEA furniture, and deliver food and other. "
In recent months, technology industry companies are faced with a shortage of programmers, many companies are beginning to recruit. Google and Facebook are stealing talent competition is very fierce. In order to retain talent,companies and even out of the $ 500,000 in prize money. In addition, Twitter, Amazon, Foursquare, Zynga, and other start-up companies are also aggressively hiring.
Google started from the end of 2009, corporate culture transformation. Google is already a mature company, the stock prices has slowed, so the treatment benefits and life will be different from Google's biggest business enterprises of different points. Google needs to deal with these initiatives Facebook, IPO (IPO) on the staff of the appeal.
On the other hand, the U.S. non-technology workers, now at a low level of labor costs.The highest overall U.S. unemployment rate has reached 9.6%. This is also TaskRabbit work provided by the labor market welcomed reasons.
