Google keeps paying deceased employees' families for a decade

Many of the perks Google famously offers its employees are designed to help those employees enjoy a healthier life. Organic food in the cafeteria! On-site gyms! Subsidized massages! Nap rooms!

 

Turns out, though, that the company also wants its employees to enjoy a better death. More specifically: a wealthier death. In an interview with Forbes's Meghan Casserly, Laszlo Bock -- Google's, Chief People Officer (in non-Google terms: head of HR) -- shares a Google benefit that is all too literally out of this world. "This might sound ridiculous," Bock tells Casserly. "But we've announced death benefits at Google."

 

Yes. It's like this: Should someone pass away while employed by Google, that person's surviving spouse or domestic partner will receive a check for 50 percent of the deceased's salary. And that spouse or domestic partner will receive that check every year. For the next decade.

 

Let's just take a moment to pause and appreciate that. You can get rich at Google even through dying.

Read more at The Atlantic.