Maximizing Teamwork through Innovative Workplace Design

1. Workplace Design Drives teamwork: The design of the workplace is casual and like a playground so that the environment is comfortable, easy to work in and enhances ideas. Google also tracks time of its employees in cafe lines to maximize collaboration for e.g Lunch Tables: Design and place long tables which would expose employees to sit with other people resulting in exposing them to more people they can get to know so that people can be comfortable with one another and then work well in teams. The organization knows well that great ideas cannot be forced. Strategies such as accidental meetings between creative people and engineers, the freedom to explore, tailored work stations are used to help them feel more relaxed and fueled for the

A warm greeting for new employees: A warm greeting for a new employee turns out to have a big impact since it leads to a 15% increase in productivity over the following nine months. In addition to this, Google believes in treating its employees in the best way and giving them importance thus, it came up with Project oxygen. Since Google has had a long and odd relationship with the whole idea of management where it not only gave freedom to its employees but knew where to draw its boundaries and set its limit it knew how to deal with the managerial problem it was facing which was causing people to leave because they were not feeling this connection to the company, it’s mission and felt that their work did not matter. Employees did not like their co-workers or bosses. Based on the quarterly done performance reviews Google decide to come up with Project

Google also uses Predictive Models which are what if analyses always done by the people operations to improve the forecasts of the upcoming people management. It also uses analytics in order to produce a more effective workforce plan and solve diversity problems, that would help in rapid growth and change of Google, solving the weak diversity recruiting problem and, retention and promotions of women and minorities. Googles also does forecasting, which is basically done based on trend analysis and scenario analysis. Using the quantitative trend analysis technique the company is able to predict the possible HR demand based on the current conditions and changes in the business. With scenario analysis’s qualitative technique the HR team is able to predict different combinations of variables to predict demand for each scenario. Google also uses surplus and shortage of employees and the balance of supply and demand for HR. The internal business practices in Google also include respecting each other, protecting confidentiality, protecting Google’s assets, relations with customers, partners and employees, and lastly, work