Alphabet CEO tells Googlers: More job cuts on the way Alphabet boss Sundar Pichai is warning Googlers to brace themselves for more jobs cuts in 2024 though they won’t be as deep as last year. So far, Google has waved goodbye to more than 1,000 employees in January, including team members in the core engineering group, the Google Assistant unit, Devices and services, vid platform …
These big corporations often hire talent, so that competition can't. If competition cannot find people to execute the idea and deliver the challenger product, it keeps the big corporation bottom line safe.
Once the risk has been mitigated, they can release potential employees back in the wild.
The thing is, many smaller employers when they see Google, Facebook or other nasty corporation on the candidate's resume, it lands straight in the bin, sometimes with a comment "we can't have unlucky people on board" or that it's not a good cultural fit if someone could justify working there.
@Neil Barnes
"Companies, even giant-sized American ones, have a responsibility to the people they employ and the societies in which they exist, not just to shareholders in the next quarter."
And they fulfilled their responsibilities unless you think they have somehow acted illegally. They offered work, people accepted the work, now the business is trying to do more with less. A business does not owe you a job. It is for mutual benefit and the more that can be done with less is increased productivity, the thing which provides our wealthy world lifestyles
@Jou (Mxyzptlk)
"So you think it will rise again above the current number? I seriously doubt..."
I have no idea and dont care. I doubt these people are good for nothing but working at google. Also if a business can provide the same service with less then it is becoming more efficient, it is increasing productivity.
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