GOOGLE PANDORA 5 6 Google’s ERGs play an essential role in helping Pandora also provides ifnancial assistance to its new employees feel at home in a rapidly growing 19% average ERGs. According to the company, “Any Pandora company. Google provides ifnancial support for employee can create a PERG (Pandora Employee some of its ERGs that represent social, cultural, Resource Group) by ifnding at least four other or minority groups. Google also encourages revenue increase employees who share the interest in a given employees to organize groups around particular subject, and the company will sponsor the ERG up interests. The company says there are “literally for companies reporting to $1,000 a year.” Like the other companies listed tens of thousands of special interest groups that here, Pandora’s ERGs represent a wide variety of can range in size from two to more than 1,000 above-average team professional topics, as well as personal hobbies members and cover topics from wine to hiking and interests. to quilting to Dungeons & Dragons.” ERGs and diversity special interest groups make it easy for new employees to ifnd their sense of community.