Click’s Sumi Das reports from inside Google on the company’s quest to perfect workplace efficiency by going the extra mile for their employees.

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VIDEO: Inside Google’s lair

Thousands of public sector workers go on strike in Norway, in a pay dispute – the first walk-out by state employees since 1984.

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Norwegian workers in rare strike

Former employees say they signed agreements that forbid them from commenting on the New York Public Library’s plan to revamp its Fifth Avenue building.

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Ex-Employees Mum on New York Public Library Project

Over the last five years, Facebook employees have met with members of Congress and walked them through ways to best to use the Web site.

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Facebook Builds Network of Friends in Washington

While disappointing new investors who were betting on fast gains, Facebook had a wide winner’s circle, creating huge paper gains for scores of early insiders, hundreds of employees and some stragglers who bought stakes recently.

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DealBook: After Buildup, a Modest Start for Facebook

A Senate committee approved legislation Wednesday allowing same-sex partners of federal employees to receive employment benefits. The Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee passed the Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act with a bipartisan voice vote. It must be approved by the full Senate and the House before enactment. Read full article > >

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Senate panel approves benefits for same-sex partners of federal employees

It wasn’t on the schedule of events for this Public Service Recognition Week, but the Senate sent an important signal of appreciation to federal employees when it approved whistleblower protection legislation. Read full article > >

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Senate passes whistleblower protections — again

A fire sweeps through a department store in the southern Philippines, killing 17 employees who were sleeping in the shop.

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Philippines fire leaves 17 dead

The CIA director revealed only a few details about the 21-year-old woman, a secretary among spies. In the agency’s annual memorial service for employees killed on the job, then-director Leon Panetta announced that a new name had been inscribed with calligraphy inside the CIA’s Book of Honor : Barbara Annette Robbins, who had volunteered to go to Saigon during the Vietnam War and died in a 1965 car bombing at the U.S. Embassy. Read full article > >

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Barbara Robbins: A slain CIA secretary’s life and death

A 24-year-old woman who says she is the prostitute at the center of a Secret Service scandal gave the most complete account yet of her alleged dispute over payment with an agent that led to revelations about nine Secret Service members bringing prostitutes to their rooms on a presidential business trip to Colombia. Read full article > >

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Secret Service scandal: Colombian woman describes night of carousing with agents

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Thursday pulled a $5,000 solicitation for a magician to motivate employees at a leadership training event, weeks after a mind reader hired by the General Services Administration became an embarrassing symbol of a Las Vegas spending scandal. Read full article > >

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NOAA pulls ad for magician to motivate employees at leadership event

In a bar as busy as the Good Guys Club, with its nude dancing, the employees didn’t have time to start and finish a conversation all at once. A thread would unspool over hours, days. This one had begun a few days ago. Read full article > >

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At D.C.’s Good Guys nightclub, a crime of vengeance and a victim’s brave struggle

The Department of Homeland Security is a tale of the good, the bad and the ugly. It has 230,000 employees, about the population of Birmingham, Ala. Almost all of them are good, hardworking public servants, providing valuable service to the country. Read full article > >

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The good, bad and ugly of the Homeland Security Department

With so much news about federal employees on the wild at a casino hotel outside Las Vegas and with prostitutes in Colombia, it’s a pleasure to learn about public servants who are more reflective of the whole. Read full article > >

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Award winners save federal government billions

A top Environmental Protection Agency official resigned Monday after comments that the agency should make examples of polluters the way Romans crucified people to quash rebellions caused a furor. In an internal memo to EPA employees, Administrator Lisa P. Jackson said Alfredo Juan “Al” Armendariz had “offered his resignation” as regional administrator for the agency’s South Central region. Read full article > >

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EPA official resigns after enforcement philosophy causes furor