Google Google wants to encourage its employees to eat healthily. Fast Company reports: “In pursuit of that healthiness, happiness, and innovation, the software giant has turned to ‘nudges’: simple, subtle cues that prompt people to make better decisions.” Borrowing ideas from behavioral economics, Google is now: (1) putting candy in opaque bins rather than clear dispensers; (2) placing salad in full view to people entering the cafeteria and dessert much further down; (3) encouraging people to use smaller plates by pointing out that people with bigger plates tend to eat more; (4) color-coding foods in accordance with how healthy they are; and more. All these interventions can plausibly be characterized as nudges as we understand the term here.