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more about #perks more comments → Niko Bellic: Google is The Devil. more » TheBusinessGuy: Hey, Google isn't alone here. Conde Nast eliminated the free Orangina. more » Magister: I realize that this may come across as harping, but... Google has invested in Wojcicki's company at the behest of a founder. Google is not subject to... more » BadUncle: I just like it when they stop using the cattle prod. more » If_I_Had_a_Poodle: Expect us to add benefits rather than pare them down over time. We believe it is easy to be penny wise and pound foolish with respect to benefits that... more » shostakobitch: doesn't every company started by some fruit-booted shitass in a garage that makes it big go through the same tired cycle of plucky-futurist-luxuriatin... more » Trai_Dep: To think they could have avoided the bad press by instead trumpeting their commitment to Green by transitioning these comp'd subs to the online versio... more » BlinkyMcChuck: Uh...poverty sucks? more » britneyspearstears: Yet they're still mailing dozens of extra copies to ad agency reps who never open its protective wrapper, let alone read the damn thing. Except me, o... more » daveyjonesisdead: I prefer fully-shaved perks. more » once: I get a professional subscription for $25 per year. How can they not afford this for their old timers? more » SultanaEleusis: It was not that their subscriptions were canceled; it's that the magazine is no longer being published. They just haven't yet announced it publicly. more » miss_msry: Sounds like they are going to save 25% by getting rid of the dead tree editions. more » FormerEnglishMajor: Meanwhile, the big guys take Town Cars and have yet to darken the entryway to coach class. I fear that it will be the little things like this - peopl... more » The_Lovely_Miss_Bronx: So the old ladies can head over to Barnes & Noble on a weekday afternoon, order a cup of hot water, pull teabags out of their purses, and read the Ne... more » -
#perks
Google Honchos: Our Employees Should Be Grateful They're Not Starving in Gutter
Google used to say its lavish perks bolstered productivity and, if anything, would only grow more posh. But a recession changes things. Now the official line is more like, just be happy you're working, you ungrateful fucking pigs. More » -
#media
At Conde Nast, Every Perk Must Go
Twenty-five percent! One fourth of the whole pie! This scary number's being kicked around everywhere as the worst(?) case scenario for the looming Conde Nast budget cuts. Every perk is being trimmed—even the ones for little old ladies.
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#mediaelite
Graydon Carter's Monthly Mortgage Payment Is Probably Less Than Your Rent
Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter has an interest-free $5.3 million mortgage on his four-story greek revival townhouse in Greenwich Village, courtesy of his sweetheart deal with Condé Nast. What's he pay? Oh, $2,083 a month.
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#cubicleculture
Jeering Googlers Bring Entitled Coworkers In Line
Google is reportedly flooded with Yahoo résumés. We'd recommend an overtly modest approach to anyone who scores an interview: Google has lately been brutal in handling presumptuous, entitled transplants. More » -
#valleywag
Why Is Yahoo Laying People Off? The Answer Is on an Engineer's Desk
After thousands of layoffs last year, Yahoo's gearing up to cut more staff. Here's an idea: Why not trim outrageous spending first? One Yahoo engineer has helpfully, if unwittingly, shown where to start.
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#marthastewart
Boss Martha Fears the Spread of Googley Perks
Three New York City Googlers went on Martha Stewart to show off a scallops recipe today. How fun! But Martha was far more interested in their employer's lavish perks. More » -
#geeksgonewild
Who's Saying 'Fly Me' to Eric Schmidt?
How does Eric Schmidt do it? The computer nerd runs Google, has Obama's ear, parks his jet fleet in a NASA hangar, and has a rocking girlfriend. Is she the reason he flies so much? More » -
#googleplex
Google Serving Up Hubris at Shuttered Café
Since Valleywag broke the news that Google was closing two of its free cafés this week, they've been busier than ever as hyperentitled Googlers race to get one last taste. And complain about the lines. More » -
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#stupidcostcuttingtricks
Google Buys American for Friday Beer Bash
International trade is what powers the modern, global economy! But Google's bean-counters have taken a horrid protectionist turn by insisting on domestic beer for the search engine's Friday "TGIF" events. More » -
#cutbacks
Fear and Loathing on the Google Shuttle
Googlers, used to being coddled by the luxuries of the Googleplex, now worry they'll have to pay to ride the company shuttle bus. It's the latest sign of the giant search engine's nervous breakdown. More » -
#perks
Cisco, the Best Lousy Place to Work
How did Fortune decide Cisco was near the top of its "Best Places to Work" list? An unhappy tipster at the networking-equipment maker leaked this report from a company meeting happening now: More » -
#politics
Tom Daschle, Driven Out of Town
Tom Daschle has dropped his bid to become Secretary of Health and Human Services after not paying taxes for a car and driver. He must be flashing back to his campaign ad from 1986. More » -
#perks
Top Yahoo Exec Asks Company for a Loan
It's hard to think of a worse time to get into the home-loan business. But, according to upset finance staffers, Yahoo backed a senior executive's mortgage to move into a neighborhood of $3 million houses. More » -
#perks
Google Launches "School of Spiritual Growth"
How soul-draining it must be to work at the world's best company! Hence the introduction of Google's School of Spiritual Growth, an arm of the search engine's in-house university. More » -
#cutbacks
Yahoo Retreats from Hollywood
Two years after he left, the ghost of TV executive Lloyd Braun still haunts Yahoo. Which is why a report of lost perks in Yahoo's L.A. office turned into an evisceration of the ex-exec. -
#mahalo
Jason Calacanis makes Disneyland the saddest place on earth
After laying off most of his staff, how is Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis watching his pennies? By spending some of the Web directory's $21 million in funding to take nine remaining employees to Disneyland. -
#meltdowns
Facebook employee unloads company gear on eBay
Times are tough at what was Silicon Valley's hottest startup last year. So tough that one Facebooker is auctioning off a company-issued Jack Spade laptop bag. -
#perks
Filet mignon on menu at Google's NYC holiday party
Google is throwing not one, not two, but three holiday parties for its New York employees this year. Such is the cash-flush search engine's definition of austerity. -
#perks
Google's austerity campaign
The best place to work in America is becoming like every other big corporation. Google, at its heart an overgrown advertising agency, is most famous for its lavish perks. Now those are disappearing.
