Google cuts Xmas bonus, offers Android phone instead

Dec 24, 2008 The Workplace

The financial slowdown has reached Mountain View, as Google plans to give employees an Android powered handset instead of the $1,000 cash gifts it usually gives.

In countries where the phone does not work as yet, like the BRIC countries, Google will give employees $400 (which is the cash value of the phone).

Incidentally, as reported by several bloggers, the company has also decided not to send out the christmas gifts they were in the habit of sending to top publishers in it’s Adsense program.