To be honest, I don't know the detailed structure for this as I'm relatively young and have the luxury of it being out of mind at the moment.
What I know is that you will for sure have allies that you wouldn't have on an individual basis.
For example, my wife would be able to call up my colleagues (from my team that I work with every day) and ask for connections to HR or whatever. They would definitely help her because 1) they care about me as a person and 2) they are invested from a game theory perspective, because they also want to know that they'll be paid out if the same thing happens to them.
Most likely, there is some existing structure to actually help, as Google is at the scale where this kicks in non-zero times.
However, I just looked it up on the internal search and as you'd expect, it differs based on your country and its laws. So I can't speak for all Googlers
What I know is that you will for sure have allies that you wouldn't have on an individual basis.
For example, my wife would be able to call up my colleagues (from my team that I work with every day) and ask for connections to HR or whatever. They would definitely help her because 1) they care about me as a person and 2) they are invested from a game theory perspective, because they also want to know that they'll be paid out if the same thing happens to them.
Most likely, there is some existing structure to actually help, as Google is at the scale where this kicks in non-zero times.
However, I just looked it up on the internal search and as you'd expect, it differs based on your country and its laws. So I can't speak for all Googlers