At Google, any employee can give anyone else a $175 cash award, with no management oversight or sign-off required. In many organizations this would be viewed as madness. Wouldn’t employees cut side deals to exchange awards? Wouldn’t they game the system to earn thousands of dollars in extra income? That hasn’t been our experience. Over more than a decade, we’ve only rarely seen abuse of the peer bonus system. And when abuse does happen, it’s the Googlers who tend to police it.
