How Google works hard to keep staff happy

The internet giant is famously nice to employees, who enjoy perks unheard of elsewhere. Emer Sexton takes a closer look and finds that while money can't make you happy it can lead to higher profits.  

THERE comes a time in every girl’s life when she realises she will never work for Google. In his book, Work Rules, Google’s head of people operations (ie, human resources), Lazlo Bock, writes about the corporate Nirvana that is Google, the second-most-recognised brand in the world, after Apple.

It had a turnover of $66bn in 2014 and has 53,000 employees worldwide, including 2,500 in Dublin.