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Google lays off hundreds of 'Core' employees, moves some positions to India and Mexico (www.cnbc.com)

submitted 6 months ago by lautan@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Google is laying off more employees and hiring for their roles outside of the U.S.

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[–] MentalGymnastics@sh.itjust.works 23 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They'll say the work is not needed. That's because the workload gets pushed to whoever is left. Is there a way you go from 110k employees to 20k and have no workload increase at all without some suffering some deficiencies somewhere in the product. Doubt it.

Another thing is who decides what the employees work on. "Industry hasn't innovated in x years" okay that's on CEO/management they decide what products to invest time in. It seems all that's left are barbarians in these companies. Possibly the visionaries have long been layed off it seems?

[–] RidcullyTheBrown@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They’ll say the work is not needed.

because it isn’t. Product lines which were supposed to grow and bring profit have become stagnant and useless. E.g. Alexa which was supposed to help amazon convince people to buy stuff but instead plays music in the morning. Normally there would be another growing sector to relocate the more overstaffed department but there isn’t. So.

Is there a way you go from 110k employees to 20k and have no workload increase at all without some suffering some deficiencies somewhere in the product. Doubt it.

That was done through closing down branches of the company which weren’t performing and automation in the rest. It wasn’t painless, far from it, but the point was that unions couldn’t stop it, not that it was fair or nice.

Another thing is who decides what the employees work on. “Industry hasn’t innovated in x years” okay that’s on CEO/management they decide what products to invest time in. It seems all that’s left are barbarians in these companies. Possibly the visionaries have long been layed off it seems?

sure, but what difference does it make? Yes, the stagnant technology market is directly the result of bad policies and poor investment. But that doesn’t help with the layoffs. That just is.

[–] MentalGymnastics@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 months ago

Normally there would be another growing sector to relocate the more overstaffed department but there isn’t.

Knowing Amazon quite well, there definitely are sectors that are seriously deficient even new emerging ones within Amazon seem deficient.

It wasn’t painless, far from it, but the point was that unions couldn’t stop it, not that it was fair or nice.

I agree it wasn't painless in fact there is a high suicide rate within the computer sciences field. In fact it probably still isn't painless. I also agree unions are useless but some government regulation wouldn't be.

That just is.

Yea everything is. Until it isn't.