Google Enterprise employees probe.

Keywords: employees, Dave Armstrong, GOOGLE, Future Foundation.

The division of Google, which sells software tools to companies seeking to understand the expectations of employees and employers to guide its business strategy.
Google Enterprise, which claims two million customers worldwide, questioned the company's future. The division of Google, which sells business messaging solutions and "collaboration" via the Web has asked Future Foundation, a British company, to conduct an international study on the expectations of employees, their vision of the future work . In total, 3500 people were surveyed in five countries (France, United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and Japan).
First observation, instead of work differs greatly from one country to another. Thus, 66% of French people believe that the work is not an end in itself. An appreciation of not more than 40% in other countries.
When asked about working remotely, employees are generally small to feel encouraged by their employer. Moreover, the majority of them (59%) said they prefer to work in teams.
When asked what matters most in the work, the answer that meets most French workers is interest. Then comes the good relations with colleagues and the wage level.
Taken together, 50% of employees believe that a reward or a financial incentive would increase their productivity at work. And 70% of French people believe that the current systems of rewards are not fair.
When project into the future, employees feel that working hours become more flexible and they can more easily work from home.
Asked about the lessons that Google may draw from this study, Dave Armstrong, marketing director of Google Enterprise, Europe, Middle East & Africa, said that the interest of the investigation was mainly teaching. He also recalled that a large number of customers of Google Apps, software for businesses, were particularly interested in social networks.