Google is one of the most successful companies at the turn of millenniums. Since its IPO, it had becoming richer and richer. The company started to release more and more innovations and new products as it rapidly gained the new level of investment (Hartley, 2010). There is no wonder that such a growth was compared to Microsoft’s that happened in 1980s. Later, parallel with Bill Gates’ company appeared to be not only in the growth.
Starting from 2005, Google had hired approximately seven hundred high-class employees in just three months. It was indeed an unexpected turn even by Google standards. Alumni from top universities across the country with mostly PhD degrees joined the internet giant. Google was trespassing even favorable to Microsoft University of Washington (Hartley, 2010). No wonder that people started to talk about “poaching of talents” and the fact Google is enticing employees.
However, a reasonable question arises: did Google really poached somebody? According to Danny Kellman (2014), poaching is when the company is adamant about hiring a worker who works for a competitor and showed any interest about joining another company. Google, instead, just showed better conditions of work and most of the employees who changed Microsoft or any other company for Google, in most cases, made this decision on their own (Hartley, 2014). In this respect, I do not agree with the statement that Google acted somehow unethical poaching talents across the country, as the company did not poach anybody.
At last, but not the least, Google kept it ethical. It for sure showed some interest in specific employees, however, it used so-called referral program. This is the situation when company’s employees are offering others to join the company and this is absolutely ethical (Kellman, 2014).
References
Hartley, R. (2010). Management Mistakes and Successes, 10th Edition. John Wiley & Sons.
Kellman, D. (2014). Is Poaching Employees Ethical?. Human Resources IQ. Retrieved from http://www.humanresourcesiq.com/hr-talent-aquisition/articles/is-poaching-employees-ethical
