Yasmin+Oymak


 * Presentation Outline:**

My presentation is was about the Fortune Magazine list: “The 100 best companies to work for 2007” as well as about this year’s No. 1 American company to work for which is Google.

__General facts and figures about the Fortune Magazine as well as the 100 best companies to work for 2007 list__ ·
 * Fortune Magazine is an American business magazine
 * It was founded in 193 by a man called Henry Luce
 * The Fortune magazine publishes the American 100 best companies to work for list regularly, i. e. once a year
 * The 100 best companies to work for list ranks the 100 best companies to work for
 * The first US list was published in 1984 in a book with the title “The 100 Best Companies to Work for in America"

__The list in detail__ ·
 * The list is generated by an institute called the Great Place to Work® Institute, Inc. (Incorporated)
 * The Great Place to Work® Institute is a research and management consultancy based in the USA with international affiliate offices throughout the world
 * It was founded in 1991 by best-selling author Robert Levering and organization consultant Amy Lyman, in collaboration with a team of professional organization and management consultants
 * The Institute’s mission is: Any company can create a great workplace, our mission is to help them do it
 * According to the institute, a great place to work is a place where: You TRUST the people you work for, have PRIDE in what you do, and ENJOY the people you work with
 * At the heart of this definition is the idea that a great workplace is measured by the quality of the three, interconnected relationships that exist there: The relationship between employees and management, between employees and their company/jobs, and the relationship between employees and other employees
 * Companies are selected for the best companies’ lists primarily on the basis of their employees’ responses to the Great Place to work Trust Index
 * This tool measures the level of the three dimensions - trust, pride and camaraderie - within a workplace
 * Further information used for selection to the list is provided by managers’ responses and their completion of the Great Work Culture Audit

__Google__
 * The name Google is a play on the word googol, that was coined by a man called Milton Sirotta
 * It refers to the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros
 * Google’s use of the term reflects the company’s mission to organize the immense, seemingly infinite amount of information available on the web
 * Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin both graduate students in computer science at Stanford University
 * Their headquarters are in Mountain view, California
 * Today the company has 5,063 employees in the US
 * The current CEO is Dr. Eric Schmidt
 * Google runs 11 free gourmet cafeterias at its Mountain view headquarters and offers its employees free Gourmet meals
 * Google operates free, Wi-Fi-enabled shuttles from locations around the Bay Area to the headquarter offices
 * For workers who drive Google offers: Onsite car washes and oil changes and if you want to buy a hybrid car the company will give you 5,000 $ toward that environmentally friendly end
 * Google rewards its employees – handsomely: Naturally you can get haircuts onsite. Care to refer a friend to work at Goolge? Goolge would like that too, and it’ll give you a 2,000 $ reward. Just have a new baby? Congratulations! Your employer will reimburse you for up to 500 $ in takeout food to ease your first four weeks at home. At Google you can work out in the gym; attend subsidized exercise classes; get a massage; study Mandarin, Japanese, Spanish or French and ask a personal concierge to arrange dinner reservations.Google takes the work-life balance to a new level; a Googler who is pressed for time can get plenty of errands done while at work. Employees can do laundry for free in company washers and dryers (free detergent too) or drop off dry cleaning. Google also offers the following to its employees: child care, onsite notaries and five onsite doctors free of charge etc. just to mention a few
 * Overall it is the Google culture that has vaulted this company to the Number 1 position on the 2007 “100 best companies to work for” list

Here is the slideshow of Yasmin's presentation:

media type="custom" key="323669" And here is the news report from [|MSNBC.com] which Yasmin showed after her talk:

media type="youtube" key="UmYp5ItOwIE" width="425" height="350" Many thanks Yasmin for an interesting and very well delivered presentation!