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Harm to those involved.

The way that Google’s atmosphere creates harm to those involved is how laid back the company seems to be when it comes to their working environment. Since the goal of Google is to be the number one search engine as well as prospering in many different ventures that they are involved in failure is not an option. The potential that employees and consumers can be harmed due to the atmosphere can increase, when the employees are working in this environment work can become secondary and the work production has the potential to fall which can affect the consumers in this regard. Google has an unusual work environment to say the least because of how the work areas are arranged. Google setup there work environment to make employees feel at home due to the amount time that employees spend there. In a way that is understandable, but at the same time the work environment seems like a giant funhouse. One would wonder how anyone is supposed to be able to get anything done with so many distractions. Yes, the benefit of having such freedom brings out the employees’ creativity but having this much could causes people to react to this freedom in an unproductive way. This not to say that having fun is bad by no means but having too much fun can have the potential of reducing that amount of production that a group is able to produce. The authors of the article is Sage Journals stated that, the key implication of this finding is that too much fun has adverse consequences where productivity is concerned. (Tews, Michel, & Stafford, 2013, p. 379) Google had a policy where employees were allowed to spend 20 percent of the work week doing their own projects. The authors of our text showed that, in 2013 the 20% time policy was largely discontinued after Google determined it was splitting its focus among too many projects. (Fraedrich, Ferrell, & Ferrell, 2017, p. 463) The focus is not producing the turn out that they wanted so Google did what was needed to reach their goal. Google Is any interesting and positive company to work for as the text states. Doing what they can to make Google a better company to work for and to lead the world in innovation but the desire to be the best is not enough, if everyone is not on board with process and are not able to separate the fun side of work from the work that is needed to be performed, Google will end up like so many other companies before it, a thing of the past.

Bibliography
Fraedrich, J., Ferrell, L., & Ferrell, O. (2017). Business Ethics: Ethical Decisons Making and Cases 11th Edition. Boston, MA: Cengage learning.
Tews, M. J., Michel, J. W., & Stafford, K. (2013). Does Fun Pay? The Impact of Workplace Fun on Employee Turnover and Performance. Sage Journals, 54(4), 370-382. Retrieved from https://doi-org.ezproxy.liberty.edu/10.1177%2F1938965513505355