Comment on Google lays off employees working on its voice assistant

malloc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• andallthat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Have seen that too. The canned press release from all of them is something like “as part of our continued effort to make the org more efficient we have aggregated tram X with team Y and as a result a handful of roles were no longer needed. Our company remains focused and confident in our growth”. Has AI taken over the PR department too?

  From what I can see, this is not even about individual performance. It looks like a continuous game of musical chair where an entire team here and there is suddenly decimated or completely removed with non-existent internal communication.

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  • flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They find it easier/cheaper to lay off a bunch of people and then hire again.

    Hiring costs for new people don’t factor in financial reports apparently.

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    • qaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Hiring is “investment”, wages are “expenses”.

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      • Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        CapEx vs OpEx

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  • Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The bigger the company, the more they see people as just a headcount. Your performance doesn’t matter, your name is unknown, you’re not even a number, you are 1 of x number of y’s.

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  • malloc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Most of f500 is overrated. At a certain point, only driving the stonk is the main motivator to do anything.

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• surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Gotta love the stock market. It incentivizes gaming the numbers like this

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  • malloc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Pump the stonk 📈🚀🌕

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• TheDarkKnight@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My company hasn’t! Fingers crossed!🤞

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  • malloc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Good luck

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