Google confirms it just laid off around a thousand employees

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• LifeInOregon@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  11% increase in revenue. Lays off a thousand employees. Great to see capitalism working for people and not corporations.

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  • Soleos@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You forgot, corporations are people too. And who are the most important people in the world??

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    • piecat@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Share holders!!!

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    • Fedizen@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      *corporations are people in the USA

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  • phoneymouse@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The beating will continue until morale improves.

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• errer@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Enshitify, enshitify, enshitify.

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• Desistance@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Trim the workforce to make room to hire cheaper employees.

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• eronth@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Big corps keep cutting people, small jobs can’t keep a consistent roster. Everything is good…

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• autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is the best summary I could come up with:

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  Google just confirmed to The Verge that it’s eliminated “a few hundred” roles in each of these divisions, meaning Google has confirmed layoffs of around a thousand employees on Wednesday alone, if we use a reasonable definition of “few”.

  We asked Google spokesperson Courtenay Mencini to say if this was the complete and total number of job cuts in this round of layoffs, but she stopped replying at that point, only confirming existing layoff reports at 9to5Google and Semafor.

  The New York Times reported on the engineering team layoffs too.

  When we spoke to Mencini earlier this evening about the Google hardware layoffs, she did not mention the other layoffs — but did write that “a number of our teams made changes to become more efficient and work better” and that “some teams are continuing to make these kinds of organizational changes, which include some role eliminations globally.”

  If so, though, it won’t work: The Verge is among the news outlets that takes a hard line against planted information, and we pride ourselves on finding the bigger picture.

  Parent firm Alphabet employed 182,381 employees as of September 30th, 2023, so roughly a thousand job cuts would only be around half a percent of the company’s total.

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• werefreeatlast@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Best news I’ve heard this week!

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  • essteeyou@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The people losing their jobs are just workers with bills to pay and loved ones to take care of. No billionaires got laid off.

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    • werefreeatlast@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes buy layoffs at Google means something went wrong. They screwed up somewhere.

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  • MaliciousKebab@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My condolences.

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    • werefreeatlast@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s just a thought geeks who were spying on us on a daily basis. How bad could it get if they all start up #Google spin-offs?

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