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Google has opened new offices around the world in much the way that Macdonalds spread its restaurants, according to a formula. The search engine company's new Manhattan office has a cafeteria as lavish as that on the Mountain View campus, so employees don't need to venture out for lunch beyond the protective force field. The London office is called, like the Google headquarters in Silicon Valley, the Googleplex. It's equipped with the standard foosball tables. But there's one pesky local tradition that the Google way has not yet been able to eradicate. At the London office, Google's largest outside the US, staff still wear suits to external meetings.
Google is teaching its British hires its motto, "You can be serious without a suit," says a London spokesman for Google. The office's work force, which is mostly British, dresses business casual and plays games, but, he says, many still wear suits when meeting with clients or bankers. [Wall Street Journal]
