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Alphabet Donated Its Employees' Holiday Gifts To Charity (fortune.com)

Posted by msmash on from the tech-perks dept.

The employee perks at Google are legendary, and they've always included an over-the-top holiday gift for every employee. In the past, the company has surprised its 70,000 employees with Nexus phones, Android smartwatches, and Chromebooks. Fortune adds:This year employees speculated they might get Google's new Pixel phones or a Google Home unit, the company's competitor to Amazon's Echo. But they forgot: They don't work for Google anymore. They work for Alphabet. Instead of a shiny new gadget, Alphabet employees got an email. On Thursday Bloomberg published a bruising story about the new, cost-conscious regime of Alphabet, driven by its corporate re-organization and its ex-Wall Street CFO, Ruth Porat. Shortly after the story hit, employees were informed that their holiday gift this year was a donation to charity, Fortune has learned. Alphabet donated $30 million worth of Chromebooks, phones, and associated tech support to schools on its employees' behalf.

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  1. The human fund by Ryanrule · · Score: 5, Funny

    Money for people.

    1. Re: The human fund by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      For next Christmas they will get to train their H1B replacements.

    2. Re: The human fund by harrkev · · Score: 4, Funny

      For next Christmas they will get to train their H1B replacements.

      That is at least two or three years down the road.

      Next year is the "Jelly of the Month Club."

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  2. The Honeymoon is over I guess? by r2rknot · · Score: 5, Funny

    So, get to work. waddah think we are running here? A charity?!

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  3. We can afford to give away $30 Million by PMuse · · Score: 4, Funny

    We just didn't want to give it to you.

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  4. Re:A phone is over the top? by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 4, Funny

    It actually seems like a pretty reasonable employee gift to me.

    It's weird of them to not give their employees some of their own products though, make employees happy, and get people talking about the stuff.

    Remember... Working for Google is the greatest gift of all.

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  5. A van?? Lucky dog! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    When I worked there, I had to live out of a refrigerator box.