:00:05. > :00:12.boxing, basketball, beach volleyball and wrestling. Now it is
:00:12. > :00:22.time for Click. Another busy day at the office. Meditation balls, just
:00:22. > :00:39.
:00:39. > :00:44.what I needed. I am a bit thirsty. From three dance classes to
:00:44. > :00:49.perfecting your bowling mousse, this week, Click looks at the
:00:49. > :00:56.Google approach to working life. -- bowling mousse. Is there more to it
:00:56. > :01:03.than meets the eye? Also, look at the latest way to get content on
:01:03. > :01:09.your television. Also, and app to get you on song. Welcome to Click.
:01:09. > :01:15.They say there is no such thing as a free lunch. You would do well to
:01:15. > :01:19.ask the employees that dribbled their opinion on that one. --
:01:19. > :01:25.employees at Google. They enjoy quality cuisine at no cost each and
:01:25. > :01:29.every mealtime. The perks go well beyond the well-fed work force.
:01:29. > :01:38.There is a size that links employees satisfaction to
:01:38. > :01:44.efficiency. Google is attempting to perfect it. Sumi Das found out more.
:01:44. > :01:48.What is this? If you said it was a crew of b-boys strutting their
:01:48. > :01:53.stuff on the dancefloor, you are correct. If you answered a typical
:01:53. > :01:59.day at the office for employees of the world's number one search
:01:59. > :02:05.engine, you are also correct. This could be one of the secrets to
:02:05. > :02:12.Google's success. Break dancing is one of 200 that Ms classes offered
:02:12. > :02:17.every day at the company. -- one of 200 fitness classes. An unusual
:02:18. > :02:25.benefit but employees are used to those here. Got a knot in your
:02:25. > :02:30.back? Schedule and a sash. Looking for inspiration? -- schedule and a
:02:30. > :02:40.sash. Get a talk from a world leader. Run out of clean underwear?
:02:40. > :02:47.Bring your laundry to work. Need to perfect your hook shot?
:02:47. > :02:57.Visit the bowling alley. You can even take a snooze in a cosy nap
:02:57. > :03:00.
:03:00. > :03:08.pod. Yes please. Free gourmet meals and shuttle rides are not unheard
:03:08. > :03:15.of in Silicon Valley. Why does good will go above and beyond? -- Google.
:03:15. > :03:20.Now that I have been spending a bit of time here at the Googleplex,
:03:20. > :03:26.picking up the culture, chatting with Googlers, I am picking up a
:03:26. > :03:29.trend. Can you spot it? They are trying to work out any kind of
:03:29. > :03:36.programme that will make Googlers happier, healthier and more
:03:36. > :03:46.productive. We are at the forefront of making decisions and figuring
:03:46. > :03:48.
:03:48. > :03:56.out how to have a productive workforce. Super productive. In the
:03:56. > :04:02.last 14 years, Google has gone from two employees to over 32,000,
:04:02. > :04:06.making it tough to preserve its nimble and Industry if -- effective
:04:06. > :04:10.start-up days. They hire people like Jessica Wisdom. We want to
:04:10. > :04:15.make them a happy. We want to keep them engaged in their work.
:04:15. > :04:19.Research shows that when people are happy, they are more engaged in
:04:19. > :04:24.their work and more productive. Giggle does not subscribe to
:04:24. > :04:29.typical HR philosophies. This is the country queues data mining
:04:29. > :04:34.strategies created a multi-billion dollar business. Giggle knew that
:04:34. > :04:40.providing free, flavourful meals on campus would keep workers from
:04:40. > :04:47.straying too far from their desk. It did not just hire a chef and
:04:47. > :04:51.asked them to start cooking, it analysed results to make an
:04:51. > :04:57.appetising menu. It is not just what Googlers eat that is looked at,
:04:57. > :05:02.it is how they eat. They used to only offer large plates. Then they
:05:02. > :05:09.discovered that small plates held diners with portion control. It is
:05:09. > :05:14.a healthier and, say it with me, more productive way. Why not toss
:05:14. > :05:19.the large plates? Googlers want options. They tend to mourn when
:05:19. > :05:23.they are taken away. Google has found that nudging employees in the
:05:23. > :05:29.right direction is effective. you take a small plate, you tend to
:05:29. > :05:34.eat less, according to research. We looked at who had taken the small
:05:34. > :05:40.players. The percentage of people taken them increase from 21 %, to
:05:41. > :05:47.32 %. Google has also tried to boost people's water consumption.
:05:47. > :05:52.You can choose between tap water and bottled so does from a fridge.
:05:52. > :05:57.It is so much easier to grab a cooler from -- a bottle from the
:05:57. > :06:05.cooler. The monitor the consumption through the filter. We found that
:06:05. > :06:10.people drank forties and present more water. It goes beyond cafes. -
:06:10. > :06:16.- 48 % more water. I have got a passion for collecting the right
:06:16. > :06:21.data, analysing it and putting it into every design. We have taken
:06:21. > :06:26.surveys of each individual person, interviews, brainstorming. We have
:06:26. > :06:33.even done psychological profiles over the years. Hang on,
:06:33. > :06:38.psychological profiles? Yes. design the offices in Zurich,
:06:38. > :06:44.employees took personality tests. Fascinating, yes? Does it sound a
:06:44. > :06:51.little Orwellian to anyone else? looked at lots of things. That is
:06:51. > :06:55.the bright side. Robert Sutton is a professor of management science and
:06:55. > :07:05.engineering at Stanford University. He has followed Google closely for
:07:05. > :07:07.
:07:07. > :07:12.about a decade. The dark side is that we always wanted to be here.
:07:12. > :07:17.The Athens called Total institutions. -- there are things
:07:17. > :07:22.called Total institutions. The army, mental institutions, something that
:07:22. > :07:27.you check in and never leave. policies have been described as
:07:27. > :07:34.liberal paternalism. He says the tech giant strides to be a force
:07:34. > :07:38.for good. They work just as hard as Apple, Amazon, Facebook. That is
:07:38. > :07:42.who they are competing against. You are only as good as your last
:07:42. > :07:48.product cycle. To me, the alternative is that they do that or
:07:48. > :07:53.they get squashed. Be nice to employees. We are a civilised
:07:53. > :07:59.workplace. Googlers must have some gripes, right? We wanted to know.
:07:59. > :08:05.We tracked down a former employee. Josh To spent barely five years
:08:05. > :08:12.toiling away at the Googleplex. He found time to appreciate the Prout.
:08:12. > :08:17.A great business decision, to keep employees happy. -- the benefits.
:08:17. > :08:25.And the length that they went to to keep us happy, I felt they took a
:08:25. > :08:31.lot of pride in it. As a business owner now, many people want to help
:08:31. > :08:36.the same way that giggle does. Josh has adopted many techniques like
:08:36. > :08:41.the females that his a venture- capital fund. There was an
:08:41. > :08:47.unexpected downside. -- the free meals. You can get you here cut
:08:47. > :08:52.here. You can get your oil changed here. Dry-cleaning, food, it can
:08:52. > :08:57.breed a sense of entitlement. I am the chosen one. When your every
:08:57. > :09:02.need is catered to, it is hard not to get spoiled. Every single Friday
:09:02. > :09:09.you can expect to have a full spread of oysters, crab, lobster,
:09:09. > :09:17.foie gras was definitely not a rarity. Did giggle create foie
:09:17. > :09:22.gras-loving monsters? Possibly. It is a minor grievance. George says
:09:22. > :09:26.his Google days were inspirational and inspiring. Why did he leave?
:09:26. > :09:31.passion was for social enterprise as social change. My main reason
:09:31. > :09:37.for leaving was and there was not that opportunity for me there at
:09:37. > :09:41.that time to have those passions. common refrain among ex Googlers,
:09:41. > :09:51.eventually they may want to invest all those long hours on their own
:09:51. > :09:53.
:09:53. > :09:57.project. Until then, some of the perks: Way to attract, keep and
:09:57. > :10:04.motivate some of the sharpest minds in the tech sector. If that is not
:10:04. > :10:10.enough, perfecting the windmill might be.
:10:10. > :10:17.Sumi Das on Google's scientific approach to a productive work posts.
:10:17. > :10:23.Genius or a little bit creepy? -- work force. Let us know what do you
:10:23. > :10:28.think. Next up, this week's tech news.
:10:28. > :10:34.Maybe the dodgy music at Facebook's big stock market launch was a bad
:10:34. > :10:39.old and. Since Mark Zuckerberg rang the stock market opening bell,
:10:39. > :10:43.trading has been beset, first by technical problems and now
:10:43. > :10:48.shareholders are suing the company, alleging it covered up forecasts of
:10:48. > :10:53.a less rosy outlook for future growth. Facebook and Morgan Stanley
:10:53. > :11:02.deny that. Google Chrome took the crown of the world's most popular
:11:02. > :11:08.Web browser, albeit temporarily. According to data, Google Chrome,
:11:08. > :11:13.which lodged in 2008, it performed Internet Explorer 4 nearly Bonbeach
:11:13. > :11:17.in May for the first time ever. Mozilla's Firefox is in a strong
:11:17. > :11:22.third place, cornering 25 % of the market. The man who designed some
:11:22. > :11:28.of the most iconic everyday technology of the past 20 years has
:11:28. > :11:33.been aided by Princess Anne. A rise Sir Jonathan Ive, the man behind
:11:33. > :11:38.the look of the iPad. He says he is most excited about the project he
:11:38. > :11:43.is working on now which, in true Apple style, he cannot reveal.
:11:43. > :11:48.Researchers at MIT have found a solution to get in those last bits
:11:48. > :11:53.of ketchup out of the bottle without shaking. They have come up
:11:53. > :11:57.with a non-toxic, slippery coating that they call LiquiGlide. It is
:11:57. > :12:04.sprayed into the inside of the bottle during manufacturing so that
:12:04. > :12:09.any liquid, no matter how thick, just slips onto the surface. Saucy.
:12:09. > :12:15.Over the last couple of years, there has been a lot of buzz around
:12:15. > :12:18.the idea of the connected TV. These are TV sets that, as well as
:12:18. > :12:24.letting you watch, debt from traditional broadcast services,
:12:24. > :12:31.also alleges dreamed that the much anything you want from the internet.
:12:31. > :12:36.From entire TV series these -- from entire TV series on demand...
:12:36. > :12:41.Contrary to what you might be told, you do not need to buy a good TV to
:12:41. > :12:45.get access to these services. There are ways of streaming content to
:12:45. > :12:53.your existing TV. Competition in this space is hotting up. Here is
:12:53. > :12:58.Richard Taylor with an update on the latest. Multimedia riches.
:12:58. > :13:03.Whether it is the weather or searching for a dream home, making
:13:03. > :13:08.escape Col are keeping fit, it is all there, vying for our attention
:13:08. > :13:12.on a screen right in front of us. These applications are displayed
:13:12. > :13:18.not through a smartphone but a smart television. As you would
:13:18. > :13:21.expect, they are pretty snazzy. The present are well integrated TV
:13:21. > :13:31.experience with a single remote control for your entire
:13:31. > :13:41.
:13:41. > :13:48.TV off. I do not mean off back to the company I borrowed it from. I
:13:48. > :13:55.am not fast. You do not need a connected TV to get a connected TV
:13:55. > :14:05.experience. You need a box to plug into it. You may have one already.
:14:05. > :14:05.
:14:05. > :14:12.X Box 360 has everything from first run movies to Facebook. Kinect, the
:14:12. > :14:22.apps are voice controllable as well. Ex-boxer, search. The PlayStation 3
:14:22. > :14:24.
:14:24. > :14:28.does not have the same Content Selection. -- X Box. There are some
:14:28. > :14:33.existing services you may subscribe to. If you are with Virgin Cable
:14:33. > :14:39.you will know about its in-built Connectivity. Sky customers are
:14:39. > :14:44.welcome at the smart TV party. It's any time-servers has been enhanced
:14:44. > :14:49.to include everything from catch-up TV through to entire back
:14:49. > :14:54.catalogues of TV series. With the BBC iPlayer coming on stream in the
:14:54. > :15:01.autumn. Getting it is as easy as connecting an Ethernet cable from
:15:01. > :15:05.the box into the rata. Often they are not in the same room. It can
:15:05. > :15:11.create a cabling issue. It is a problem that can be sold very
:15:11. > :15:20.easily using one of these. It is called a home club, it carries data
:15:20. > :15:30.around the room. You take a cable, flooded into the device, flooded
:15:30. > :15:33.
:15:33. > :15:38.into the spare electricity socket. -- plug it in. This one has got
:15:38. > :15:43.space for three, it supports 500 megabits per second. That should be
:15:43. > :15:49.more than you need. In practice you will only get a fraction of that
:15:49. > :15:55.through the cable. You can use a home club with any connected TV box.
:15:55. > :16:01.There are a number of stand-alone offerings itching to be hooked up.
:16:01. > :16:09.As a bonus they are controllable through smart phones and tablets as
:16:09. > :16:14.well. Cross media bar, Media on demand, it supports a limited
:16:14. > :16:18.number of media formats from your home network and USP. Sony would do
:16:18. > :16:27.well to learn from western Digital whose life box can play anything
:16:27. > :16:37.you throw at it. From the network or terror by drive. It is a solid
:16:37. > :16:41.
:16:41. > :16:46.performer and has iOS applications. -- terabyte drive. Cupidtino is on
:16:46. > :16:52.at all TV. Its simplicity is virtue and vice. Geeks have been hacking
:16:52. > :17:01.it to improve functionality. At this price, really, what were you
:17:01. > :17:06.expecting? Roku is now exporting its shares across the pond. With a
:17:06. > :17:11.simple interface and playback intelligently optimised to your
:17:11. > :17:17.internet speed, it consists of on demand a video and little else.
:17:17. > :17:24.Contrast that with LG, which has taken the kitchen-sink approach to
:17:24. > :17:32.TV apps. It is a little too clever for its own good. Can you serve up
:17:32. > :17:36.salad recipes on a television? A nicely designed a screen for
:17:36. > :17:40.playing back your content from other network devices. Finally, we
:17:40. > :17:47.have talked about hooking up a TV to get the internet, how about
:17:47. > :17:52.using your mobile phone to pick up a TV signal? This is a TV receiver
:17:52. > :17:59.which plugs into an iPhone or iPad with live TV with the option to
:17:59. > :18:06.record. Using a small wood antenna, reception can be hit and miss. For
:18:06. > :18:10.a TV junkies, it is a must-have. There is no escaping it, we are not
:18:10. > :18:16.consuming media any more, we are in danger of being consumed by it.
:18:16. > :18:21.Richard Taylor on the new ways to get more content to your big screen.
:18:21. > :18:25.We go to the small screen now. These things are great. You can
:18:25. > :18:31.make phone calls on them as long as you have reception. You can get
:18:31. > :18:35.videos on them as long as you have a decent data connection. You can
:18:35. > :18:40.connect to the internet. You can listen to music, as long as you do
:18:40. > :18:45.not run out of memory. You can play games on them until the run out of
:18:45. > :18:55.batteries. With a track record like that, would you trust these to
:18:55. > :18:57.
:18:57. > :19:01.teach you how to sing? Kate Russell will explain more in Webscape.
:19:01. > :19:11.These things really can teach you how to sing, you just need the
:19:11. > :19:15.right app. My Note Games is a iOS app designed for children with its
:19:15. > :19:25.cute graphics. It is free to play and you unlock more notes and
:19:25. > :19:27.
:19:28. > :19:36.levels as you progress. There are loads of musical instruments to
:19:36. > :19:40.choose from, from saxophone, viola. With male and female singing voices,
:19:41. > :19:50.you do not have to play a musical instrument to have fun with this
:19:51. > :19:56.
:19:56. > :20:00.app. I always fancied myself a bit of a soprano. Maybe I am better off
:20:00. > :20:05.sticking to my day job. There are plenty of games to play for free.
:20:05. > :20:15.The option to buy more content for a few coins. You can probably make
:20:15. > :20:15.
:20:15. > :20:25.back when you are good enough to go out busking. As Pinterest continues
:20:25. > :20:29.
:20:29. > :20:34.to catch the imagination of the social world, there are apps among
:20:34. > :20:38.the back office. If you cannot resist a nice-looking pie chart,
:20:39. > :20:43.there are plenty of statistics and information about what the world is
:20:43. > :20:47.talking about. If you include your own Pinterest on the website, you
:20:47. > :20:56.can see how many people have been looking at you and what kinds of
:20:56. > :21:01.posts they enjoy. Head over to this website and load up a picture to
:21:01. > :21:05.make a funky, chopped up version that can be king from the
:21:05. > :21:11.application. It is the last five pins that makes your cover, make
:21:11. > :21:21.sure you pin them after you add new content. This will be less annoying
:21:21. > :21:24.
:21:24. > :21:29.if he used them for photos from event. -- if you use. Next up, a
:21:29. > :21:33.website with an address that is a lot more complicated than what it
:21:33. > :21:38.does. Grndctrl.com does not have the catchiest name in the world,
:21:38. > :21:42.but if you want to keep track of your finances, it offers simplicity
:21:42. > :21:46.itself. As well as being a great way to keep tabs on your life
:21:46. > :21:51.without being bogged down on endless spreadsheets, you can use
:21:51. > :21:58.it to help you save up for something special, like a family
:21:58. > :22:02.holiday or a new computer. Add all your in comings and outgoings,
:22:02. > :22:08.specify the reward you are aiming for with the cast, the app will
:22:08. > :22:18.tell you how long it will take for you to save up. Maybe I'd better
:22:18. > :22:27.
:22:27. > :22:33.rethink the Ferrari. Microsoft's social search platform opened up
:22:33. > :22:41.quietly, so.cl lets users build networks based on interesting
:22:41. > :22:50.search results. It uses Microsoft's be in search engine technology. --
:22:50. > :23:00.Bing. You have a few days left to get your entry into NASA birthday
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:23:00. > :23:10.Video contest 2012 competition. -- birthday Video contest. Watch the
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:23:23. > :23:30.videos up leaded so far on YouTube. That was Kate Russell with Webscape.
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