Managing Human Resources, Eight Edition

 You Manage It! 3: Ethics/Social Responsibility Google’s On-Site Child-Care Policy Stirs up a Controversy

Google provides some of the best employee benefits offered anywhere, an important reason why it was ranked number one on Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For in 2012 and 2013. Despite this recognition of being a great place to work, Google stumbled badly when it decided to raise its on-site child-care cost from $1,425 to $2,500 per month to employees who enroll their children in Google’s child care. This was a 75 percent increase in child-care costs, and employees with two children in Google’s child-care facility would pay $57,000 per ...