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The financial crisis also left their mark on Google. It must now search the employees of the operator's own body experience. Because instead of a cash bonus, which they usually at the end of the year from their employer, they will receive this year a specially prepared version of Android phones, T-Mobile G1. This requires the IT website Valleywag.

As the company in the Valleywag published circulars to its employees out, Google has this year decided Android, a mobile phone for Christmas to his staff to distribute. The cell phone is a special version of the T-Mobile G1, without T-Mobile branding and instead with an Android logo on the casing. The value is, according to Google 400 U.S. dollars.

The gift is certainly not every employee at Google happy. One was the bonus money previously significantly higher. It was around 1000 U.S. dollars, as an employee in a comment on the Valleywag Articles wrote. Other hand, the circular imply that the distribution of cell phones also test purposes. In addition, the Googlers to the Treaty on the phone himself to set the device to be able to use.

There are other, in contrast to many other companies are still a bonus. This year had the bonus payment may also fail entirely. Because, as the company at the end of the threatening messages, "compels the current financial crisis we [Google], while conservative money-spend to be."