拉里•佩奇：打造“家”一样的谷歌

我无法想象谷歌会有许多吸烟的员工。您可以举例具体说说您如何有意识地帮助员工保持健康吗？

    通常情况下，人们应该去大型健身中心健身——但是我们发现，很多人在大量使用社区附近的小型健身器材。【我们一直】确保为员工提供真正健康的食品。我们把餐后甜点放在墙壁周围，放在房间角落。我们安排了医生提供现场服务。我们想能做更多事情，使医疗保健变得更方便、更简单、更快捷，这有助于人们保持健康。如果为了保持健康，需要在下班后先开车前往健身中心、停车，然后还要等待很长时间，就根本达不到促进健康的目的。

免费食品在谷歌是神圣不可侵犯的福利吗？

    是不是只要谷歌存在，就会永远提供免费食品？我不知道，但我觉得目前完全没问题。我不太担心开支问题。我唯一担心的是造成过度浪费。免费食品让公司更有家的感觉。而且，在某种程度上，它也会促进某些更健康的饮食习惯：一次不会吃得太多。

早在和谢尔盖成家之前很久就一直对儿童保健很感兴趣，更不用说儿童了。成家是否改变了您平衡工作与生活的观念？

    没有太多改变。一直以来，我们都擅长确保灵活地对待员工。公司尊重员工，员工就会投桃报李。这一点对于家庭来说也同样适用。

    译者：乔树静/汪皓

I can't imagine a lot of Googlers smoke. Can you give me an example of something that you're consciously trying to do for the health of employees?

    Generally you go to these big facilities for gyms -- but we noticed people were heavily using the smaller gyms that are closer to their buildings. [We've been] making sure we have really healthy food for people. We started putting the desserts around a wall, just around the corner. We have doctors on site. We'd like to do more of that, where we really make health care convenient and easy and faster, which I think helps people stay healthy. If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.

Is free food sacrosanct at Google?

    Will it always be there as long as there's a Google? I don't know about always, but it seems to be working for us pretty well. I don't worry about the cost. The only thing I worry about is making sure we're not causing too much consumption as a result of it. It does make the company feel more like a family. And to some extent it promotes healthier practices: You don't have to get a huge portion of something.

You and Sergey were interested in child care long before you had spouses, let alone children. How has becoming a family man changed your concept of work/life balance at Google?

    It hasn't changed that much. We've always been good at making sure we're treating employees flexibly. You treat people with respect, they tend to return the favor to the company. And that goes for families.