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　　Google身为头号网络搜索引擎，其成功的秘密除了为员工提供最好的福利之外就是四处网罗高学历人才，例如现在公司里就有一位火箭科学家和一位前脑科主任医师。当然，Google最喜欢那些有着计算机科学专业高学历背景的人才，Google的两位创始人就是博士生，他们自然知道高学历对企业的发展意味着什么，他们鼓励所有的员工都成为研究员，因此也为这些人才提供高额资金支持他们搞创新研究。

　事实上，在Google，注重知识和人才已经是企业文化的一个重要组成部分。自从微软在80年代开始大规模招募名牌大学的计算机科学专业毕业生以来，Google可谓第二个对人力资源如此重视的大企业。

　　现在，微软有56000名员工，而其研究部门仅有700人，Google虽然仅有1900名员工，但这些人却几乎个个都是研究人员，Google鼓励他们积极从事产品创新，并为此投入了巨额费用来激励员工士气。例如，Google在4月份提交给美国证券交易委员会的上市文件中表示，将大幅提高员工的福利和待遇，包括提供免费用餐、洗衣服务以及在办公室接受健康检查或是生病时可以直接请医生上门治疗等。

HEY, it's not rocket science. And it's not brain surgery. But if your background is in either, you're welcome to take a shot and apply at Google. The company's employees include a former rocket scientist and a former brain surgeon.

Mostly, Google has concentrated on recruiting those with a background in what you would eXPect: computer science. Founded by two near-Ph.D.'s who have purposely placed Ph.D.'s throughout the company, Google encourages all employees to act as researchers, by spending 20 percent of their time on new projects of their own choosing.

As we take our seats in the Coliseum to watch the latest challenger go up against mighty Microsoft, handicappers will see that Google has two advantages, one of which it has disclosed to the Securities and Exchange Commission: washing machines are provided at the company for employee use. The other, it has not: with a Ph.D.-centered culture, Google's co-founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, have assembled the industry's most unorthodox portfolio of human capital since Microsoft began intense recruiting of computer science majors at top undergraduate schools in the 1980's.

Microsoft has 56,000 employees, but its research group, with 700, is separate. Google has 1,900 employees, and no separate research group, so all 1,900, effectively, are charged to "boldly go where no one has gone before" (its words). You have to like Google's chances.

Employee motivation is tied to sundry conveniences and happy stomachs, or so it would seem. When Google filed its initial public offering plans in April, it enumerated employee benefits like those washing machines, free meals and doctor visits at company offices. It warned prospective investors to "eXPect us to add benefits rather than pare them down over time."

Moving in the opposite direction, Microsoft said last month that it was making some minor cuts in benefits, rankling employees, who are as aware as anyone of the