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. These perks aren't just for longtime employees. There's no tenure requirement, Google (GOOG, Fortune 500) told Forbes -- all of the company's U.S. employees qualify. A Google representative declined to comment in more detail about the policy. But that isn't the point, Bock told her: "Obviously there's no benefit to Google. The death benefits revelation adds to the already legendary list of Google perks: free food, foosball tables, on-site dry-cleaning service, generous parental leave and more.
But Bock told Forbes he doesn't like the word "perks. " [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. The new way of selling Girl Scout cookies -- which is supposed to be easier, faster and more fun -- asks troops to pre-order cookies based on last year's sales, and then go out and sell them.
This streamlines the whole process, eliminates the cumbersome order sheet and has been enormously popular where it's been tested, the Scouts say. The problem, according to Isaacson, is that it leaves girls and their parents on the hook for paying for the cookies they pre-order, whether they sell them or not.