Google Office in Zurich

I had posted about Google Office in New York and Googleplex earlier. And this time are photos from Google office in Zurich. Seeing such offices make you wish you were working for Google. They have everything a person needs in there and even more. They have message chairs, slides, pool tables and other games, private cabins and much more.

Entrance

Reception Waiting Area

Office

Meeting Igloo

Meeting Gondola

Working Area Slide to Lunch Area

Restaurant

Tech Stop

Relax Lounge

Play Room

Fire Pole

Massage Area

How About Free Ride ?

The Googlenairs

Google!!!!

Google has been known for a long time as the best place in the world to work. They offer free massages, gourmet meals, and professional haircuts at their beautiful campus in California. That right there puts them above 99.99% of the other companies in the world. At any rate, you already knew all that so lets move on.

Have you ever wondered how much a Google employee makes? Well this data isn't extremely easy to find, if you don't believe me just search Google. However, here is some interesting statistics.
Google Programmer in Phoenix - $174,000/year
Google Programmer in California - $197,000/year
Google Programmer in Chicago - $222,000/year
Google Programmer in New York - $242,000/year
(according to Indeed.com)

...and thats just in salary. What other financial benefits does Google offer it's employees?

• 1) Google will pay $8,000 / year for you to continue your education. They just require you get at least 'B's in your classes.


• 2) If you refer another employee to Google's staff and they stay for 60 days, Google will pay your $2,000


• 3) If you are thinking about adopting a kid, Google will contribute $5,000 towards all the legal and adoption fees.


• 4) Depending how long you have worked at Google you can get up to 25 days (almost a month) paid vacation a year!

Now their is one more thing that is very interesting about Google employees financial lives. According to the New York Times there are estimated to be over 1,000 Google employees with Google stock worth over $5 million dollars. Woah wait! There are over 1,000 people working for Google who are worth OVER $5 MILLION DOLLARS! Even Google's former masseuse (did I mention employees get free massages) is a millionaire. Also, according to the New York Times, every employee that has been at Google for over a year is worth well over $250,000. Competing firms have said that Google alone has raised the average programmers salary by 50% over the last few year and with salaries and benefits like this I really don't doubt it.

The Marlboro Cigarette Mobile Phone

Well not exactly Marlboro it's Marlbara but close enough. By using this Chinese-made device you can fool people into thinking you’ve totally gone bananas and started talking on your cigarette pack. Although I’m sure it doesn’t have all the features of the latest mobile phones, but I know I’d love to have one,especially because it comes in a luxurious box, with a gold lighter and complementary cigarettes.Here are Marlbara’s specs:

- 900/1800 GSM/GPRS
- 1.5 inch 260k color 178×220 display
- 1.3 mega pixel camera
- microSD support
- stereo speakers
- measures 92×50.5×13 mm
- weighs 98 grams

The tallest building in the world and still growing

Last updated at 15:21pm on 6th April 2008

It is the tallest man-made structure in the world – and it is still growing.

When complete next year the Burj Dubai will stretch half a mile into the sky over the United Arab Emirates, taller than three Canary Wharf towers balanced on top of each other.

Already 2,200ft tall, and the result of 22million man hours of labor, the Burj is the pinnacle of skyscraper engineering.

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When complete next year the Burj Dubai will be taller than three Canary Wharf towers balanced on top of each other

This £2 billion marvel, designed by American architect Adrian Smith, is packed with technological innovations, including double-decker lifts that can carry 42 people at a record-breaking 40mph to the observation platforms, robotic window-cleaning platforms and a system of pipes to collect condensation from the windows.

It will provide about 15million gallons of water per year – equivalent to nearly 20 Olympic-sized swimming pools.

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The Burj will be the height of luxury. Some of the space will be used for offices but the lower 37 floors will house the world's first Armani Hotel

The water will be pumped into the site's irrigation system for use on the landscaped areas.

Because of its size – more than 6,000 miles of girders, enough to stretch a quarter of the way round the world, have gone into making its 160 floors – evacuation in a fire could be too slow.

Therefore pressurized air-conditioned refuges to allow heat or fumes to escape are situated on every 25th floor, the stairwells are fireproofed and there is a special lift for firefighting equipment.

The Burj will be the height of luxury. Some of the space will be used for offices but the lower 37 floors will house the world's first Armani Hotel.

There are also 700 private apartments, and residents will be able to swim in an outdoor pool on the side roof of the 78th floor.

The Y-shape plan of the tower, copied from Islamic designs on mosque roofs, maximizes views of the Persian Gulf.

Dubai From Burj Dubai's 140th Floor

World's 10 biggest banks

UBS AG , Zurich, Switzerland - asset stood at $1,963.227 billion


Barclays PLC - assets worth $1,951.041 billion


BNP Paribas - assets stood at $1,899.186 billion


The Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc, - assets stood at $1,705.680 billion


Credit Agricole SA - assets stood at $1,663.101 billion


Deutsche Bank AG - asset stood at $1,485.008 billion


The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd - assets stood at $1,362.598 billion


ABN AMRO Holding NV - assets stood at $1,301.508 billion


Societe Generale - assets stood at $1,261.657 billion


Bank of America - assets stood at $1,196.124 billion.