Abstract

Google’s corporate wellness program focuses on the health, happiness, and work-life balance of the employees, and is considered as being instrumental in its business growth. The wellness program inculcates a feeling among the employees that they are taken care of by the company and given an opportunity to make their work enjoyable, healthy, and creative. The wellness program of the company teaches lessons on what makes people happy and healthy that helps Google to build a unique office environment. The wellness initiatives of the company provide lasting benefits not only to the employees, but also to the company itself. Despite lavish wellness perks, however, some employees complain about their hectic jobs schedule as they struggle to complete their assignments.

Learning Objectives

The case is structured to achieve the following Learning Objectives:

• To study Google’s corporate wellness program to make its employees healthy and happy.
• To understand the wellness perks provided by Google at the workplace to motivate the employees to be more creative and innovative.
• To appreciate the role of workplace climate and employee’s job satisfaction and productivity.
• To understand the issues and challenges in designing an effective corporate wellness program.

Keywords

Human resource management, HR policies, Wellness, Health, Happiness, Work-life balance, Motivation, Productivity, Great place to work, Creativity, Innovation