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Company Narrative
Google, a technology company providing cloud computing and search engine technology, has been ranked as a PACESETTER on the Women’s Power and Influence Index.
Among its accomplishments, Google has an established equitable pay policy with an annual review process of its compensation in place. Google also created the Women@Google employee network dedicated to connecting and retaining female employees.
As of 2021, Google has reported that 33% of its workforce are women and that 31% of its leadership are women.
Sufficient information including Google’s pay parity, women’s recruitment efforts, and subsidized childcare offerings could not be found.
Workforce Profile
Equitable Pay
✓ Does the company demonstrate a clear and transparent commitment to equal pay?
“Compensation should be based on what you do, not who you are. We design compensation to be fair and equitable from the outset—but because these are human processes, it’s important to double-check them.”
Ref: Google Pay Equity
✓ Does the company perform an annual analysis of gender pay equity and pay disparities?
“Each year we run a rigorous statistical analysis to make sure all new salaries, bonuses and equity awards are fair. We take into account things that should impact pay, such as role, level, location and performance. If we find any differences in proposed pay between men and women globally or by race and ethnicity or age in the U.S., we make upward adjustments.”
Ref: Google Pay Equity
✘ Do female employees earn at least 95% of what their male counterparts earn?
Information regarding this criterion was unavailable or incomplete.
Career Growth
✓ Does the company demonstrate a commitment to actively attracting, retaining, and/or promoting women within the organization?
“How we present our open roles – and who finds them – can determine whether a candidate feels empowered to apply or not. That’s why we manually reviewed over 5,000 job postings across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, with the goal of increasing representation of women, Black talent, and people with disabilities. During the review process, we reduced bias in content and wording for job titles, requirements, and responsibilities. We also partnered with external hiring platforms to reach more Black talent. And we examined case studies across the region to uncover new ways to attract underrepresented groups.”
Ref : Pg 21, Google Diversity Report 2022
✓ Does the company provide professional development programs designed specifically for female employees?
“Women@Google is our largest global employee network and is committed to empowering all women at Google by connecting, developing, and retaining female talent; creating a culture of inclusion; and making social impact in local communities. Women@ provides networking and mentoring opportunities, professional development, and community to Googler women across 52 countries.”
Ref : https://about.google/belonging/at-work/
✓ Does the company provide professional development programs designed specifically for diverse employees?
“We also piloted Phoenix Asian Women Leadership Development program, a six-month virtual program for women of Asian and Asian-American backgrounds to prepare them to ascend to leadership roles at Google. Customized for and co-created by Asian women, the program brought together employees from technical and nontechnical backgrounds. Participants learned how to better self-advocate and respond to racial bias in the workplace, while building relationships with Asian leaders at Google.”
Ref : Pg 27, Google Diversity Report 2022
✓ Does the company offer a formal mentoring program to support the career advancement of all female employees?
“Women@Google is our largest global employee network and is committed to empowering all women at Google by connecting, developing, and retaining female talent; creating a culture of inclusion; and making social impact in local communities. Women@ provides networking and mentoring opportunities, professional development, and community to Googler women across 52 countries.”
Ref: Google Employee Resource Groups (Website)
✓ Does the company offer a formal mentoring program to support the career advancement of diverse employees?
“Women@Google is our largest global employee network and is committed to empowering all women at Google by connecting, developing, and retaining female talent; creating a culture of inclusion; and making social impact in local communities. Women@ provides networking and mentoring opportunities, professional development, and community to Googler women across 52 countries.”
Ref : Google Employee Resource Groups (Website)
✘ Does the company have policies and programs in place to actively recruit female candidates?
Information regarding this criterion was unavailable or incomplete.
✓ Does the company have policies and programs in place to actively recruit diverse candidates?
“To build a workforce that truly reflects the world, we must prioritize inclusion from the very first outreach. To that end, we scaled the expertise of high-impact teams like Empower, which specializes in recruiting underrepresented talent for technical and non-technical roles. Empower reached across our entire recruiting ecosystem, training 200 Google recruiters in a range of product areas to become trusted advocates for diverse talent – exceeding all year-over-year goals. In turn, participating recruiters brought key learnings, trends, and qualitative data back to the broader recruiting team.”
Ref : Pg 20, Google Diversity Report 2022
Work-Life Balance
✓ Does the company demonstrate a commitment to providing support and/or time off for women with children?
“We strive to provide Googlers and their loved ones with a world-class benefits experience, focused on supporting their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. Our benefits are based on data, and centered around our users: Googlers and their families. They’re thoughtfully designed to enhance your health and wellbeing, and generous enough to make it easy for you to take good care of yourself (now, and in the future). So we can build for everyone, together.”
Ref: Google Benefits (Website)
✓ Does the company provide child care support for employees?
“For 9 years, Google has been collaborating with family care company Care.com to give its workers in the United States, Ireland, UK, Japan, Canada, Australia, and Singapore 10 financed days of in-home or in-center Child Care per 12 months. The workers pay a cost for the funded days and may decide to give the full payment of the facility if they require it for over 10 days.”
Ref: Google Childcare (Website)
✘ Does the company offer subsidized child care?
Information regarding this criterion was unavailable or incomplete.
✓Does the company offer paid maternity leave for birthing parents?
“Google also has a family-leave plan. New mothers can take paid leave for 18 weeks, and new fathers get a month and a half off, paid as well.”
Ref: Google Childcare (Website)
✓Does the company provide paid parental leave that extends beyond birthing parents to include surrogacy, adoption, and paternity leave?
- new fathers get a month and a half off, paid as well.
- Google gives its workers “child-bonding bucks” to assist with offsetting costs like pampers, food, and baby formula throughout the leave. When parents come back to work, Google provides them with free infant child care service.
Ref: Google Childcare (Website)
✓ Does the company demonstrate a commitment to supporting the health benefits of its female employees?
:We strive to provide Googlers and their loved ones with a world-class benefits experience, focused on supporting their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. Our benefits are based on data, and centered around our users: Googlers and their families. They’re thoughtfully designed to enhance your health and wellbeing, and generous enough to make it easy for you to take good care of yourself (now, and in the future). So we can build for everyone, together.”
Ref: Google Benefits (Website)
✓ Does the company offer women-specific health benefits for female employees?
“Fertility and growing family support”
Workplace Standards
✓ Does the company have a policy listing prohibited behaviors, such as harassment and retaliation?
“Harassment is unwelcome conduct (physical, verbal or non-verbal) based on an individual’s protected status that creates an environment that is intimidating, hostile, or abusive, or a situation 1 where enduring such conduct is a condition of employment. Harassment can be one severe incident or a series of less severe incidents. In addition, harassment can range from extreme forms such as violence, threats, or physical touching to less obvious actions like ridiculing, teasing, or jokes based on a co-worker’s protected status. Sexual harassment is addressed separately below. Other types of harassment may include the following types of conduct:
● derogatory or insensitive jokes, pranks, or comments;
● slurs or epithets;
● nonverbal behavior such as staring, leering, or gestures;
● ridiculing or demeaning comments;
● innuendos or veiled threats;
● displaying or sharing offensive images such as posters, videos, photos, cartoons, screensavers, emails, or drawings that are derogatory;
● offensive comments about appearance, or other personal or physical characteristics, such as comments on someone’s physical disability or religious attire; or
● unnecessary or unwanted bodily contact such as blocking normal movement, or physically interfering with the work of another individual.
Sexual harassment can happen regardless of the gender, gender identity, orientation or gender expression of the individuals involved, and can, for example, occur between same-sex individuals as well as between opposite-sex individuals. It does not require that the harassment conduct be motivated by sexual desire. In some instances, sexual harassment may not only be a violation of company policy but also is a form of workplace discrimination and is against the law.”
Ref : Pg 2, Google Anti Harassment Policy
✓ Does the company mandate all employees to undergo harassment and discrimination training?
“We will update and expand our mandatory sexual harassment training. From now on if you don’t complete your training, you’ll receive a one-rating dock in Perf (editor’s note: Perf is our performance review system).”
Ref : https://www.blog.google/inside-google/company-announcements/note-our-employees/
✓ Does the company have a defined harassment policy that includes promptly addressing reported incidents?
“Employees who are found to have violated this policy are subject to discipline, including but not limited to: coaching, training, a verbal warning, a written warning, impact to performance ratings, impact to compensation, or termination of employment.”
Ref : Pg 1, Google Anti Harassment Policy
Stakeholder Engagement
✓ Does the company demonstrate a commitment to helping external stakeholders address gender equality issues?
“Accelerating Impact on Global Issues We supported new research to combat disparities of all kinds. We sponsored research that shined a light on the impacts of systemic racism.”
Ref : Pg 54, Google Diversity Report 2022
✓ Does the company offer and support initiatives that promote gender equality in the community?
“In India, we continued our efforts to scale an existing initiative: DigiPivot, a training program that aims to upskill women in digital marketing to close the field’s gender gap. The year 2022 marked the completion of our three-year pilot, with our 2022 cohort tripling the size of the previous year’s. We enjoyed equal representation from working women at the early and mid-stages of their careers, as well as those on a career break, across 17 industries. Participants in the latest cohort reported the highest satisfaction score and confidence uplift to date, as well the highest rate of pivots to digital marketing careers. Encouraged by these results, we’re continuing to scale DigiPivot’s reach across India, and exploring markets in the Asia Pacific region.”
Ref : Pg 47, Google Diversity Report 2022
✓ Does the company demonstrate a commitment to helping internal stakeholders/employees address gender equality issues?
“A few years after Google’s founding, we began focusing on ways to build Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) into the workplace. Today, we publish one of the largest sets of diversity data in the industry and transparently share our learnings with the world. Our data is global, and we’ve made it available for everyone to use by open sourcing our entire historical data set in BigQuery, the Google Cloud data warehouse. We will continue to transparently share our data and progress, and we encourage all companies to do the same. It’s through collective transparency and action that we can make the largest impact on these deep structural issues.”
Ref : Pg 58, Google Diversity Report 2022
✓ Does the company offer equity-focused trainings, speaker programs, or events for employees?
“Following that review, we identified additional updates the company will make in the areas of training and investigations to further reinforce our adherence to the Guiding Principles. We are excited about and proud of the progress the company has made in this area under the guidance of the DEI Advisory Council. The Guiding Principles remain foundational to our ongoing work, and we will continue to share updates about our progress going forward.”
Ref : Pg 30, Google Diversity Report 2022