Collaboration in the Cloud at Google
Venue
research.google.com (2014), pp. 1-13
Publication Year
2014
Authors
Yunting Sun, Diane Lambert, Makoto Uchida, Nicolas Remy
BibTeX
Abstract
Through a detailed analysis of logs of activity for all Google employees, this
paper shows how the Google Docs suite (documents, spreadsheets and slides) enables
and increases collaboration within Google. In particular, visualization and
analysis of the evolution of Google’s collaboration network show that new
employees, have started collaborating more quickly and with more people as usage of
Docs has grown. Over the last two years, the percentage of new employees who
collaborate on Docs per month has risen from 70% to 90% and the percentage who
collaborate with more than two people has doubled from 35% to 70%. Moreover, the
culture of collaboration has become more open, with public sharing within Google
overtaking private sharing.
