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It seems that every January after the festivities of the holidays begin to fade and the winter chill settles in, tech companies begin their rounds of layoffs.
Google said on Wednesday that it laid off a few hundred people from its central engineering team, a few hundred people in the Google Assistant team, and a few hundred people from its AR and DSPA teams. If you follow my math (or the Verge's ) that's probably about a thousand people who lost their jobs on Wednesday.
Fitbit co-founders James Park and Eric Friedman are leaving the company as well, according to Reuters.
"As we’ve said, we’re responsibly investing in our company's biggest priorities and the significant opportunities ahead," a Google spokesperson said in a statement emailed to Mashable. "To best position us for these opportunities, throughout the second half of 2023, a number of our teams made changes to become more efficient and work better, and to align their resources to their biggest product priorities. Some teams are continuing to make these kinds of organizational changes, which include some role eliminations globally. We’re continuing to support any impacted employees as they look for new roles here at Google and beyond."
This isn't the first time a large round of layoffs hit Google in the month of January. In January of 2023, Google laid off approximately 12,000 employees. At the time, U.S. employees received a severance package starting at 16 weeks' salary plus two weeks for every additional year at Google. It's unclear how fat the severance package is for the employees laid off today.
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Clear them before year end. Make balance sheet look good then rehire.
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Barrage of layoffs in tech sector
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DeleteYou’re just a number with ANY company now days.
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DeleteAnd you should be if you are employed by someone!
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Delete"This restructuring is scheduled to start on January 10, 2024. Based on this decision, we have had to make some difficult decisions about ongoing employment of some Google employees and we regret to inform you that your position is being eliminated."
ReplyDeleteHighly doubt it was a "difficult decision". The egos that these executives have are enormous and don't really care about us little peons.
Now the young Marxists will understand what reality feels like.
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But you guys running these companies. Let's face you don't care about your work force which is very Marxists of you.
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DeleteCuts happen at most healthy entities. Rarely at any government though.
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ReplyDeleteI have been laid off , twice, with none of these benefits, I wound up with a better job each time. Companies have no loyalty to employees, you are a number, if you don't make them money, good-bye.
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DeleteWhen you have Google devices that are made in all parts of the world and usually assembled in China, you have the makings of a catastrophe.
ReplyDeleteHave the parts made is separate factories in different parts of the world and then have them shipped to the USA to be assembled/tested.
Calm down. No company would fire their top notch employees, unless they did something wrong. All of those who get fired are just redundant and can easily be replaced.
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ReplyDeleteAndroid user since the apple 6
DeleteIf I leave, a big reason is the Apple watch. I've been waiting years for google to compete but they have nothing close.
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ReplyDeleteUnions have never admitted to the need to cut jobs. Even when the evidence is laid out before them. Sometimes businesses become bloated and internal restructuring is needed. Judging by what alot of employees were posting they did daily, it sounded like many of them really didn't do much actual work.
ReplyDeleteummmm... Googles 400 Engineers formed a union 3 years ago. What are you talking about regarding Google which is non union?
DeleteConsidering the fact that Goggle in April of 2023 announced $70,000,000,000 in stock buybacks, these layoffs were definitely not needed.
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DeleteOh come one, those lay offs were so the execs could get more raises and bonuses
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Uhoh a tech employee is going to "review" my post, I am sure that will work out well - haha
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ReplyDeletethey sure blow alot of smoke to hide that they are often associated financially with unsavoury partners.
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DeleteIt is probably about trying to get people to return to the office. They are really pushing for it to try to control people better.
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Glad I never wanted to work for Google, seems way too anti-climactic in all its approach.
ReplyDelete"... Layoffs Labeled 'Needless' By Union ..." // 🤣 And after all those years of payin' union dues It sure didn't seem to count for much when we got our layoff news "I Got You," Dwight Yoakam, 1988
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ReplyDeleteI'm sure the union has more insight on the company's finances and long-term plans than its CFO.
ReplyDeleteWell, did the union stop it?
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ReplyDeleteThey need to be cut since pichai want more than the 230 million he got last year!
ReplyDeleteThat's right, the union knows best. Far better than any CEO, and remember they know math and accounting better than anyone...
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It's hard for any employer to make such a decision but such a move is necessary for the company to survive rather to shut down the whole company. the union does not run a company or own one. In the future, google might hire them back once the business gets better and recalls the same layoff team. Be the company owner and get experience, whoever is against will do the same.
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tip of the iceberg
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