NEW YORK — Google is showing that it still knows how to make its employees feel special: It is giving all 23,300 of them 10 percent raises next year.
The Internet-search leader also is shifting part of workers’ annual bonuses into their regular paychecks, according to an internal memo sent Tuesday by Google chief executive Eric Schmidt. Those bonuses won’t count toward the 10 percent.
Google, long known for feeding workers free food and pampering them with other perks that would be considered luxuries by most employees, began taking away some of the goodies in late 2008 and early 2009. It also laid off a few hundred people.
The good times are back this year, though. Revenue rose 23 percent to $21 billion through the first nine months of 2010, and 3,500 employees have been added this year. The Associated Press
