If you search Google, there are 3,860,000 results for “The Meaning of Life.” But apparently that’s not enough for Google employees.
According to Soul’s Code Google University gave up a little information about it’s School of Personal Growth at the November Human Happiness Conference. (I swear I didn’t make that up)
Google’s Chade-Meng Tan, says:
Google wants to help Googlers grow as human beings on all levels. Emotional, mental, physical and ‘beyond the self’. (This) is why Google University instituted the School of Personal Growth, perhaps the first of its kind in a large corporation. We don’t just pamper Googlers, we want to help them fulfill their full human potential.
Owen Thomas of Valleywag says:
The risk for Google: that newly enlightened workers will realize that working at an overgrown advertising broker which peddles personal-injury lawyers and diet pills to Web searchers is not the ultimate route to spiritual advancement.
Monika Broeker, former head of Google University’s School of Personal Growth said:
With classes available entitled “The Neuroscience of Empathy” and “Search Inside Yourself,” the end goal is to help Googlers be more creative by helping them be more relaxed and open to new ideas.
With so many Google stock options under water, maybe classes like this are the least cost method to employee satisfaction. But somehow, I don’t think so.
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