Larry Page appears to be as big a nanny as his fellow billionaire Mayor Mike Bloomberg.
The Google co-founder and CEO, famous for providing free food to employees of his tech giant, has moved the desserts to a harder-to-reach location to help keep his troops healthier, he told Fortune magazine in an exclusive interview that hits newsstands today.
“[We’ve been] making sure we have really healthy food for people. We started putting the desserts around a wall, just around the corner,” Page told the magazine, which named Google the No. 1 place to work.
Google’s watch over its employees’ lifestyle is similar to how Bloomberg has moved to eliminate trans fats, salt, soda and perhaps booze from the Big Apple lifestyle.
Google’s moves have helped its bottom line too, said Page.
“Our health care costs have grown a lot less fast than other companies’,” Page said. “But our people have also been a lot happier and more productive, which is much more important.”