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Google loses ?best workplace crown?
NetApp best place to work
NetApp has taken Google's crown as best company to work for in 2009, according to an annual Top 100 list published by Fortune Magazine.
For two years Google held the Fortune title of "Best Company to Work For" after killing off a biotech drug firm Genentech from number one. However Google has sunk to number four beneath a brokerage outfit Edward Jones an a management consultancy called by Boston Consulting.
The drops are almost certainly because of Google cost cutting measures like the cancellation of an annual ski outing for the northern California Internet giant's snow-loving employees.
NetApp has an for a "legendary egalitarian culture" and down-to-earth management ethos and rather than wasting times with things like business plans, employees draft "future histories" describing their visions for coming years, according to Fortune.
They get paid days for volunteer work, cash to supplement adopting children and medical coverage for family members with autism.