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DEATH BENEFITS: Google workers get sweet perks for life and death

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IT'S no secret Google employees get a sweet deal when it comes to job perks, including gourmet food, on-site doctors and free haircuts. But until now, we didn't know just how good they have it.

Google's chief people officer Laszlo Bock has revealed a new "death benefits" that means employees are covered not just in life, but in death.

The never-before-released details of the tech giant's perks program include an amazing benefit that if a Googler dies while under the tech giant's employ, their spouse or life partner will receive 50 per cent of their salary for the next decade.

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