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Why Are Google Employees So Disloyal?
 In one recent ranking of companies with the highest employee turnover rates, Google is among the leaders.Â
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The perks Google lays on for its employees are the stuff of legend. Free gourmet food all day, the best health insurance plan anywhere, five months' paid maternity leave, kindergartens and gyms at the workplace, the freedom to work on one's own projects 20 percent of the time, even death benefits. No wonder the tech behemoth has topped Fortune Magazine's list of best companies to work for every year since 2007.
Why, then, aren't Googlers more loyal to their employer? In one recent rankingof companies with the highest employee turnover rates, the Mountain View, California, company is among the leaders. The median employee tenure at Google is just more than one year, according to the payroll consultancy PayScale.