Posted on 07/14/2022 8:18:14 AM PDT by EBH
Sundar Pichai, boss of Google and its parent Alphabet, told employees to "be more entrepreneurial" and work with "more hunger" in a staff-wide email that warned of consolidation, several news outlets reported.
Citing the "uncertain global economic outlook," the CEO said Google would slow its hiring pace for the second half of 2022. Google brought on a whopping 10,000 workers during the second quarter, per Pichai. The chief Googler went on to say the company would consolidate "where investments overlap" and streamline its processes. Effectively, Google is calling on its staff to work harder, or else.
Tech companies of all shapes and sizes have laid off workers in the face of a looming recession. That includes Google, Microsoft, Tesla and other corporate giants, as well as comparatively much smaller businesses like Bird, Rivian and Coinbase. Pichai's memo did not mention layoffs, but phrases like "streamlining" and "consolidating" tend to evoke such things.
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or Google’s Master , Klaus Schwab will come after them
Eff those Nazis.
Silicon Valley cutting dead wood every right to ten years
Make sure your boss knows how much more productive you are than your co-workers. It’s time for some workplace politics. Destroy that lazy ass that is always riding on the work of others. And just for fun, destroy every leftist at your place of work. It’s time for them to suffer most. They are the ultimate cause of economic problems.
Actually that is not the message.
This is old school Silicon Valley message which has been there since the ‘60s.
Translation: “Do your job or we will find someone who will!”
This is a shot across the bow on internal SJW.
There is a internal shakeup at both Google and FB.
They know they are going to loose the House and possibly the Senate and likely the Presidency in ‘24.
Anti Trust is something drilled into every SV employee.
They are going to go into deep hiding mode if the GOP takes all three branches in ‘24.
We used to call this practice “hire and fire”. You hire a bunch of people with the intention of cutting everybody you think is not performing. It gets around the problem of experience drain.
The problem comes when you discover that some of those people you laid off were the only people doing the work. The people doing layoffs rarely have that information. They only deal with managers and think the work just happens by itself.
This is insulting, but expected of management ignorance.
A guy works his hardest every day. Can’t work harder.
A slob never works hard and can’t be scared.
Only one is insulted.
Affirmative action employees—easy to hire, hard to fire.
What could possibly go wrong?
;-)
I worked for a company that was floundering. We were the subject of a takeover, but the buying company did not do takeovers well. They didn’t do the requisite “consolidate back office” stuff, and they left the management who had ruined the company remain. It was both mind boggling and frustrating.
Their plan was for everyone to “work harder” while doing very little to increase efficiency.
It was so absurd that the department heads would pass each other in the hallway, and whisper “work harder9 to each other.
I ended up quitting because of their ineptness. They are still struggling…and shutting down one service line after another. Eventually, their real estate will be worth more than their operations.
It’s possible to work harder without increasing productivity, especially if mgmnt imposed policies & procedures create inefficiencies.
Google says, a little less Twitter and a little more Amazon coming for employee management.
Especially older employees.
A little selective trimming is a healthy thing for a company. For example, trimming the first word off the old Google motto, “Don’t be evil.”
Yeah, those over 30 years old.
That reminds me of a situation that I faced in the early 90’s. I was offered a job at Microsoft as part of an acquisition of a company that I did software engineering work for as a consultant. I was essentially their lead developer. After visiting Redmond and talking to a lot of people, I determined that I was too old to work for Microsoft. I was married and starting a family. I think I made the right decision for my family.
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