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Managing a Global Workforce. How Google Works

July 24, 2006 /

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By synchronizing technology, Google keeps people and projects in sync.

Google’s Douglas Merrill, a corporate technology director with a background in psychology, is firmly convinced that while technology plays a role in keeping projects on track, so do the Ping-Pong tables and the elaborate cafeteria at company headquarters in Mountain View, Calif.—the social settings that get coders away from their desks and talking to each other about their projects.

By David F. Carr

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