Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions

NorwegianDude wrote: post #6

> laid off employees who worked on ... the Pixel phone. That sounds weird to me. Pixel phones has grown very fast in the last years and I don't se how it can be seen as anything but a great success.

Google ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Re: Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions

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Post by ricardobayes » Thu, Jan 11, 2024, 8:56 AM UTC

Layoffs are always counter-productive as going forward employees take fewer risks, to evade being the one laid off. Layoffs kill innovation.

Re: Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions

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Post by tucnak » Thu, Jan 11, 2024, 8:58 AM UTC

>“Our members and teammates work hard every day to build great products for our users, and the company cannot continue to fire our co-workers while making billions every quarter,” the [union] group said in a post on the social media site X.

I mean no disrespect, but fundamentally a company is only able to do one of the two things: either hire, or fire people. Nobody is taking this away from them, and why would they? Once the leadership has spoken, it's up to employees to either listen, or ignore what the leadership has to say. The union statement reads awfully like "We refuse to believe."

I'm not sure that's helping anybody!