Here is an update to the Google layoffs story we reported on last Monday. On Wednesday, just as everyone was leaving for Thanksgiving, Google confirmed to the WSJ that it was “significantly” reducing the number of contract workers. Google also confirmed that it had 10,000 contract workers or 1 contract worker for every 2 full-time employees. Trip Chowdhry, analyst at Global Equities Research, said that about 3,000 contract employees have been cut, or about 30% of the company’s roughly 10,000 contract workers as of the end of the third quarter. He also says that about 300 full-time employees have been...