Google is a company with which I have constant interaction. If I have a question about my homework, work, personal life, or want to look up reviews of companies, etc., Google is only two clicks away from linking me to the most relevant source for my search. I don’t think there will ever be a browser search company that can ever top such a successful and big company as Google. In this paper, I will discuss Google’s influence on its social and ethical responsibilities.

I believe Google is the perfect example of what social and ethical responsibilities bring to the table. Climate change has been a big global issue since 1988, and we haven’t seen any solution to it yet. According to www.worldwildlife.org, it states, “More frequent and intense droughts, storms, heat waves, rising sea levels, melting glaciers, and warming oceans can directly harm animals, destroy the places they live, and wreak havoc on people’s livelihoods and communities.” Therefore, because of this, animals and humans are at risk. But Google saw this and had to take action. Google collaborated with the United Nations to provide the public with simple information on the dangers of climate change in around seven different languages. Google has also launched a project named “Google.org Impact Challenge on Climate Innovation”, which helps fund projects as much as $5 million to help improve technological advances to help inform about climate change and take action on climate change. Some big projects are the Climate TRACE project, which is a greenhouse gas monitoring platform that provides neutral data that helps drive faster climate change action; and the RESTOR project, which is a platform that supports and speeds the restoration of our ecosystem by gathering data, funding, and each other to increase the impact and restoration of our environment, all stated by the “impactchallenge.withgoogle.com” website.

Moreover, another reason why Google handles social and ethical responsibilities so well, in my opinion, is because of its rewarding benefits to its stakeholders. A lot of people like to work at Google because of its competitive compensation and very reasonable benefits. According to “Google Stakeholders & Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)” by Pauline Meyer, it states, ” The company’s compensation strategy includes high salaries and various incentives and benefits, such as free meals and flexible workflows.” “Google’s facilities are also fun workplaces where workers can exercise, play games, and enjoy sharing ideas with each other.” This shows that Google is not a demanding firm that only cares about the work and not its employees, but a place where people’s lives actually matter in the business world. They could work to maintain a healthy lifestyle, get free meals, flexible workflows, and get highly competitive pay. This may seem too good to be true since it is the dream job anybody would like to have. If you ask me, this rarely gets seen on jobs, especially with Amazon since their employment treatment is horrible.

I used to work for Amazon in 2020 as an Amazon Fresh employee(stocking and picking groceries). I quit in under a month because you get treated like a robot, they rush you to get back to work when you’re at break, and overall it’s not a good place for your mental health. Because of this, I believe that Google is fulfilling a positive ethical responsibility because it brings responsibilities, trust, reliability, relationships, morale, and having a choice with its employees and partners. Also for the social responsibilities that fall under the categories of the general public, the environment, and investors.

To conclude, some recommendations that I have to create a more ethical, socially responsible, and/or sustainable business is to create not a competitive work lifestyle among your employees but a more friendly and comfortable place where your employees don’t feel like they are being forced to do the task and generally have fun while working at the same time. Every employee you hired has a different personality and interest, so with that being said, some practices that could be done can be little events such as raffles, group food, and going out your way to creating small talks to understand a person could greatly benefit your workplace.