Google CEO tells employees to expect more job cuts this year.

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• 1984@lemmy.today ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Record profits, time to do layoffs. :)

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• ZeroCool@slrpnk.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “We have ambitious goals and will be investing in our big priorities this year,” Pichai told all Google employees on Wednesday in an internal memo that was shared with me. “The reality is that to create the capacity for this investment, we have to make tough choices.”

  Surely the Alphabet will make the tough choice to cut CEO pay, right? lololololol I crack myself up sometimes…

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  • realharo@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They could, but even if they cut it to 0, assuming going from $226 million compensation (number I found for 2022, most of which is stock), and median employee costing $300k (I found a number around $270k median total comp, but the total cost is higher), that makes room for about 750 additional employees. Google has about 150k employees, so I think they’re laying off more than that. Of course there are other highly paid people in other top positions there too, but the thing about a CEO is, you only need one of them.

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    • ZeroCool@slrpnk.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes, cutting the CEO’s pay won’t prevent layoffs. Excellent work, detective. That’s definitely the point of the suggestion and not a matter of principle.

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    • laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I often wonder if we actually do need one of them

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• mintiefresh@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Sorry guys, we’re doing better than ever with record profits and massive growth, we’re going to have to let you go”

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  • laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is too painfully accurate to be funny

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    • piracysails@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Does no one care about the shareholders anymore?

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• MajorHavoc@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Every asshole CEO is betting that AI will magically fill the gap when he gets rid of Karen in accounting.

  And the stupid fuckers are dead wrong. No one even knows what Karen does, but they will ask someone like me to “real quick use AI to replace it”.

  Yes, Dave. I’ll give it a try. I know it’s a waste of time and money, but you’re paying for my time and it’s your money we’re wasting. So let’s have at it!

  Then you’ll try to lecture me about how I should have had the foresight to prevent you from needing to hire a whole division to replace Karen.

  Except you never get that chance, because you’re a cheap skinflint, and I’m only hearing about your firing through the rumor mill, because I left for more money over a year before your dumbass shit hit the fan - and I blocked your number when I left.

  This will not save Google any money. But they don’t give a shit, it’s a pump and dump scam to maximize their sale of stock next quarter. Because they’re already using DuckDuckGo as well.

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  • biofaust@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    DuckDuckGo is surprisingly good. It is my go-to atm on all my computers. If it only had better maps…

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    • MajorHavoc@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ve replaced Google Maps with a physical Garmin navigation device in my car, as part of an intentional “deGoogling” of my life.

      At first switching to a Garmin felt like I had become my grandfather.

      But now that I’ve had it for awhile, I could never go back to Google Maps, anyway.

      • Garmin’s interface is much nicer, to me, in a bunch of subtle ways that add up.
      • I appreciate just saying “is it in the Garmin?” Instead of asking my SO to text me an address for the kids random event.
      • I particularly love my Garmin’s ability to predict which lane I need when driving a big city highway.

      The feature of Google I miss is “there’s an accident on the road ahead” which my Garmin cannot do because it is not constantly online.

      Source: my personal experience. I’m not sponsored by Garmin. But if Garmin wants to send me free stuff they should let me know.

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• rambaroo@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  These asshole CEOs need to be put in their place. I wish the workers would fucking unionize already. The Democrats will never help us with labor issues.

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  • 800XL@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    These CEOs forget what a punch in the nose or the solarplexus feels like. They need the wind knocked out of them.

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• EnderMB@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Layoffs have turned Google, Apple, and Amazon into IBM. You cannot sustainability cut jobs forever, while also expecting your bottom line and moonshot ideas to provide growth. What sustains you is “old tech”, and these companies jumped into old tech the second they decided to take management failures out on employees.

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• vane@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  More and more corporate and less customer focused company. Greed will eventually kill youtube, search, chrome and android.

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  • laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    As far as I’m concerned, they’ve already successfully killed search and Chrome, and if there were adequate alternatives to YouTube and Android, I’d leave those too

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    • Octopus1348@lemy.lol ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Linux phones still have a looong way to go.

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    • people_are_cute@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Why hasn’t Vimea taken off?

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• SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t obsess over Japanese culture like so many weabs on the internet, their grind culture is insane, but I have mad respect for their CEO’s when it comes to taking accountability. Why are so many other nation’s CEOs so selfish? Why do they need to make more money than they already have?

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  • lovesickoyster@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why do they need to make more money than they already have?

    because their investors expect them to. Welcome to capitalism and building shit with borrowed money.

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  • maness300@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why are so many other nation’s CEOs so selfish?

    Because Japan has a culture of honor.

    The rest of the world is built around opportunity.

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• notannpc@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Don’t worry though folks, Sundars income will likely increase and he’ll still get his end of year bonus. I know everyone was real worried about him.

  /s

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  • piracysails@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Poor CEO, runs the best company in the world and gets comments like this in return. 😮‍💨

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• Tronn4@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  He should have a chat bot take over his job too

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• SplashJackson@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They should start with his

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• snek@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “removing layers to simplify execution and drive velocity in some areas.”

  Basically saying: “The problem is YOU! YOU are too many (even though it was us who hired you)! Surely if you go away, we can become better, faster, and more efficient!”

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  • lovesickoyster@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    people have a hard time admitting that their job today might be obsolete tomorrow, I believe this is already happening. If you’re not adaptable you’ll have a very hard time in the future.

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    • snek@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I would agree if more AI products that people are being removed for were producing anything valuable or providing any kind of reasonable service.

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• askat@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s time to unionize

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• rsuri@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Google is so broken that people are choosing to use a chatbot that often makes things up instead, and they think they have too many people fixing stuff.

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• werefreeatlast@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Gotta bring the band-aids to work…you know, for the job cuts.

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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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  “We have ambitious goals and will be investing in our big priorities this year,” Pichai told all Google employees on Wednesday in an internal memo that was shared with me.

  “The reality is that to create the capacity for this investment, we have to make tough choices.”

  So far, those “tough choices” have included layoffs and reorganizations in Google’s hardware, ad sales, search, shopping, maps, policy, core engineering, and YouTube teams.

  “These role eliminations are not at the scale of last year’s reductions, and will not touch every team,” Pichai wrote in his memo — a reference to when Google cut 12,000 jobs this time last year.

  Pichai said the layoffs this year were about “removing layers to simplify execution and drive velocity in some areas.” He confirmed what many inside Google have been fearing: that more “role eliminations” are to come.

  “Many of these changes are already announced, though to be upfront, some teams will continue to make specific resource allocation decisions throughout the year where needed, and some roles may be impacted,” he wrote.

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• maness300@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Any grunt who works for these companies gets exactly what they deserve.

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