Solidarity to all those google employees who have been ‘let go’ and those who are still waiting to know if they have a job or not. Google are shedding 12,000 out of over 156,000 staff. It was announced on their blog site, in an article entitled, “A difficult decision to set us up for the future”, however, he says
… these changes will impact the lives of Googlers weighs heavily on me, and I take full responsibility for the decisions that led us here.
His actions belie that thought, the responsibility for the failure, as always, lies in that c-suite office and as noted in an NYT(£) article, quoting Parul Koul, an official for the tiny, Alphabet Workers Union, “With billions in profits and executive compensation untouched, our jobs should not be on the chopping block”. The means by which some US staff were informed of their fate, an inability to enter the office seems especially cruel and illegal in many jurisdictions.
Andy Walker explores what happened in a Medium article, entitled, “Why the Google layoffs are about personal ambition and poor leadership”. I never worked for Google but I recognise the behaviour from my time at Sun Microsystems during its eight year death spiral. From the vice-presidential jousting to the destructive nature of a stack ranked performance management system (which Google never formally used). I think…
