Google execs threaten workers with layoffs: ‘There will be blood on the streets’
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Re: Google execs threaten workers with layoffs: ‘There will be blood on the streets’
#2Can someone explain how burning out your employees, freezing hirings, possibly laying off a large number of your employees, in a market where people are actively quitting en masse... is supposed to increase productivity? Or are company execs just under the impression that "the beatings will continue until morale improves" was seriously good leadership advice?
Re: Google execs threaten workers with layoffs: ‘There will be blood on the streets’
#3If your company truly has a bloated unproductive staff that lacks direction the problem is at the top of the organization. It sounds like what really needs to happen is the board step in and change senior leadership.
Re: Google execs threaten workers with layoffs: ‘There will be blood on the streets’
#4Can someone explain how burning out your employees, freezing hirings, possibly laying off a large number of your employees, in a market where people are actively quitting en masse... is supposed to increase productivity? Or are company execs just under the impression that "the beatings will continue until morale improves" was seriously good leadership advice?
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a tool for beating your employees... or something.
Re: Google execs threaten workers with layoffs: ‘There will be blood on the streets’
#5Can someone explain how burning out your employees, freezing hirings, possibly laying off a large number of your employees, in a market where people are actively quitting en masse... is supposed to increase productivity? Or are company execs just under the impression that "the beatings will continue until morale improves" was seriously good leadership advice?
The unproductive employees aren’t the ones quitting.
Re: Google execs threaten workers with layoffs: ‘There will be blood on the streets’
#6The quote from the article specifically mentions the Google Cloud sales org:
> Employees who work in the Google Cloud sales department said that senior leadership told them that there will be an “overall examination of sales productivity and productivity in general.”
Re: Google execs threaten workers with layoffs: ‘There will be blood on the streets’
#7It should be emphasized that this was an exec in the sales division, talking to cloud sales people. My experience has been that this sort of Glengarry Glen Ross macho talk is much more expected in that universe. By contrast, the Google devs I know say that there has been vague talk of belt-tightening and sharpening focus but no one has been making these kinds of dire threats.
Re: Google execs threaten workers with layoffs: ‘There will be blood on the streets’
#8Can someone explain how burning out your employees, freezing hirings, possibly laying off a large number of your employees, in a market where people are actively quitting en masse... is supposed to increase productivity? Or are company execs just under the impression that "the beatings will continue until morale improves" was seriously good leadership advice?
The unproductive employees aren’t the ones quitting.
...I mean, all I have to go on is my own experience and what I've seen from the workers around me, but your claim doesn't line up with that data at all. For instance, my team just lost three (out of 8) of its most talented and most productive developers (including our lead developer) who quit over corporate policy changes, including WFH changes. Obviously, to reiterate, this is a small sample size and sampling bias, but... it certainly doesn't support your claim.
EDIT Sorry, I misread your comment. I fail to see how "only the productive people are quitting" supports "therefore, fire as many unproductive people as you can". Doesn't that just leave you with... zero people?
Re: Google execs threaten workers with layoffs: ‘There will be blood on the streets’
#9Can someone explain how burning out your employees, freezing hirings, possibly laying off a large number of your employees, in a market where people are actively quitting en masse... is supposed to increase productivity? Or are company execs just under the impression that "the beatings will continue until morale improves" was seriously good leadership advice?
> actively quitting en masse
won't happen in a downturn/recession. Employers will have all the leverage.
Re: Google execs threaten workers with layoffs: ‘There will be blood on the streets’
#10Can someone explain how burning out your employees, freezing hirings, possibly laying off a large number of your employees, in a market where people are actively quitting en masse... is supposed to increase productivity? Or are company execs just under the impression that "the beatings will continue until morale improves" was seriously good leadership advice?
People aren't quitting en masse.