Comics. Offbeat Blogs. Google's death benefits pay dead employees' families for 10 years - Aug. 9. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) Google's unusual "death benefits" include paying the deceased's spouse or domestic partner 50% of their salary for 10 years, the company's "chief people officer" Laszlo Bock revealed in an interview this week with Forbes.
What's more, all of the dead Googler's stocks vest immediately. Each child of the employee receives $1,000 per month until age 19, or age 23 for full-time students. [sinDominio] 13 Things Your Desk Says About You. Contemporary photography magazine. Girl Scout cookie controversy: Kids saddled with financial risk? - OC Watchdog : The Orange County Register. Gabriella and her mother may love the new "Cookies Now" program, but Misty Perry Isaacson does not share their ardor.
Isaacson, an attorney in Santa Ana during non-Girl Scout hours, is also the "cookie manager" for her daughter's troop. Used to be that the girls (and/or their parents) toted around a multi-colored grid sheet; recorded orders for boxes of Caramel deLites, Thin Mints et al on that multi-colored grid sheet; and then delivered the cookies a month or so later.
Now, there's another way.