04/02/2024

An Undercover Hiring Strategy is Working to Create a More Positive Workplace

The workplace also has become more productive

I'm old enough to remember a time when Google once ranked among the nation's happiest workplaces. It's easy to remember, since it was during my time at Google Campus (now Google for Startups). It was a place that buzzed with energy on the inside while wannabe employees relentlessly tried to claw their way in on from the outside. 

It offered innovative positions in a fun and fast-paced environment, high pay, and an impressively pioneering list of benefits and employee perks. And though none of that has changed, its rank among the nation's happiest workplaces has. Because no matter how shiny the office complex, how large the benefits package or how cool the perks are, there's one little-known and widely overlooked ingredient to making-and keeping-staff happy: fellow staff. 

Not those with the most direct experience at equally impressive employers and ivy league alma maters. Not those that are the most highly intelligent, creative, driven or committed. But those who other staff like to be around.

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