The Perks of Working at Tech Giants [Infographic]

by James Plafke | 10:30 am, October 17th, 2011

Any decent boss or manager attempts to lessen the blow of work by providing some sort of perk for coming into the office. Free beverages or snacks, a break room with a pretty television, company outings, or even picking up lunch for the office once in a while. While those tend to be the perks for we common folk, giant tech companies usually do their employees one better. From Google’s legendary cafeteria, to Facebook’s leather repair service, tech giants seem like a pretty nice place to work. If you’re curious, or want to be made jealous for a bit and start daydreaming about what it’d be like to get out of that cubicle in the office that doesn’t even allow you to put up a life-size cardboard David Tennant, read on below and infographically learn the wonders tech giant perks.

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Anonymous

I work for a tech giant and the biggest perk we get is we had our paychecks cut in response to the 2008 financial meltdown, we’re lucky if the soap in the bathrooms are refilled (been waiting a week so far this last time.) I guess it depends not on how many billions your company makes, but the leadership culture of the giant you work for…
Anonymous

Leather repair? That seems incredibly specific for a workplace perk. Do facebook workers go through a lot of leather?

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