May 5, 2009 by Jenny Sanderson
As anyone who’s ever tried to get a job at Google can tell you, the company is not the easiest place in the world to find employment. They tend to require flawless qualifications and a proven track record of excellence in the industry before your CV even get s a second look.
That however, was not the case for Google’s latest intake of employees. Not only do these new Google workers not have any qualifications at all, they’re not even human…
That’s right, in a move to administer a more environmentally friendly grounds keeping strategy, the powers that be at Google have hired a herd of goats on short term contracts to eat the excess grass surrounding Google HQ, whilst ‘fertilizing’ the ground as they go.
The Goats number about 200, and will spend roughly a week at Google doing their thing under the watchful gaze of a goat herder and a border collie, before being shipped back to the farm they came from.
According to Google, the reasoning is that Goats cost about as much as mowing and are more fun to watch. However, I feel the icy touch of the PR department all over this one.
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