Google Workers In The Workplace

To demonstrate, we can see these effects through workers employed at Google. The corporate giant offers “free fitness classes with access to gyms” and “free, healthy gourmet food” to all of its employees in the office (INC). As a business built on the foundation of creating the best possible environment for its employees, Google has taken necessary steps to ensure the happiness of its workers, beginning with various lifestyle modifications. While these programs sound nothing but beneficial, they do actually produce positive results. A former Google engineer claims that having the opportunity to work out on the clock allowed him to “alleviate a lot of the fidgety energy he felt being pent up in a cubicle” and “let him focus on work” so that …show more content…
When a business decides to implement nutritional and exercise programs, it is done with the rationale that it will spike the working productivity of its employees who are granted the opportunity to “get healthy” while still being paid on the clock. Some may say that if an employee is exercising instead of working, nothing is getting done and therefore hurting the company. However, this is not always the case. Lisa Krieger, an employee at Blue Shield Company in California, took full advantage of the Weight Watchers program newly instated at her work. This later gave her the motivation to begin exercising at the gym during her lunch break. Krieger states how before her lifestyle change, she “used to snore and wake up in the middle of the night” but now she feels “like a human in the morning” as a result of frequent physical activity and diet amendments (Gounder). In addition, Krieger has experienced an influx in energy while working that preserves her alertness during long hour shifts. After seeing the results of this recent study, it is clear that when employees are receiving their daily nutritional necessities, they are more focused and capable of being productive at work. Employees are then more motivated by their careers when they feel better about themselves after exercising. As a result, this screams profits for any business. If an employee is capable of working at maximum capacity and alertness every day, average productivity escalates. A business can then hire less workers to do a task. Employers receive greater quality of performance from their existing employees that are