CNET Editor Applauds Google’s Staggeringly Generous 'Death Benefits'

A word of warning to all happily married independent contractors, freelancers and full-time employees with non-Silicon Valley market leaders. This post may hazardous to the rest of your Wednesday.

In a brief, tantalizing post, CNET executive editor Charles Cooper picks up on the headline-grabbing nugget of information contained in today’s Forbes interview with Google chief people officer Lazlo Bock. It amounts to, quite simply, the most empathetic workplace benefit ever:

Explaining the company’s policy, Bock said that when someone dies while in Google’s employ, the company cuts a check for 50 percent of that staffer’s annual salary to the surviving spouse or domestic partner for the next decade.

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