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Google Faces Employee Retention Challenge

Posted by michael on from the golden-handcuffs dept.

prakslash writes "60% of Google's 1900 employees now hold stock options worth at least one million dollars. According to experts in this Reuters article, it is now imperative for Google to maintain its sense of mission. If it fails to do so, a whole slew of employees facing post-IPO burnout and boredom will leave the company to go back to school, start a new company, or join the ranks of high-tech early retirees. Such a mass cashing-out could lead to a decline in Google stock price and intellectual brain-drain. Oh how I wish I worked for Google."

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  1. Re:Operation: Shootfoot by Jah-Wren+Ryel · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    --- You cannot lead if you send mexed missages. - George W. Bush

    You cannot lead if you had Tex-Mex for lunch because no one will stand behind you.

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    When information is power, privacy is freedom.
  2. Easy fix by Anonymous+Cowdog · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    They can just start adding crack to the food. Solved.

  3. Re:You wish you worked for google? by nadadogg · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You know, about 6 years ago, I learned a wonderful word. Ethnocentric. Without whipping out a dictionary, it basically means that I find my own country/culture(American) superior to all others.
    Damn, I really love that word. You know what else I love? Hookers and blow, and also apple pie. I love my country, and enjoy the fact that my president now, and for the next 4 years, is a hell-raising texas cowboy who doesn't fuck around or take shit.
    Damn, I went a bit off-topic there, but hey, it happens :)

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    i use linux and windows oh god how can i have an opinion
  4. Outsourcing anybody ? by droopycom · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    In other news H1-B cap already reached for 2005.

    I have a friend working at google, and all she got was a lousy tee-shirt....