Google Thinking About Making An In-House Startup Incubator To Retain Fleeing Employees

In an effort to retain talent, Google is considering an in-house startup incubator for its employees, the New York Times reports.

There isn't much detail on how it would work. We assume, an employee would say, "I'm leaving to do a startup."

Google would say, "stay here, we'll give you office space and some seed money for your project." And maybe the employee would stick around, try to build something new and Google would benefit.

Yahoo once tried something similar, but it flopped and Yahoo ended the program after a year and a half.