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