Re:Google Announces 12K Layoffs: A difficult decision to set...
by acituan on Friday January 20, 2023 @12:26PM
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Now the remainder will do 50 hours of "ambitious" work for projects that will eventually get axed, redone, reorganized etc.
It was never a raw productivity per hour problem, it was an organizing productivity behind meaningful, useful and profitable projects problem.
> certainly not interested or in a position to build things 100x better
in an organizational complexity of 150k -> 138k workforce, no one is in a position to make things 10x better, let alone 100x. Shedding 12k is a scapegoating gesture as if there is such a possibility, merely to ease the anxiety of the market price of shares. It doesn't even directly move the needle for profit/asset ratio, but it will help depressing wages with the theatre of "look what we had to do".
It was never a raw productivity per hour problem, it was an organizing productivity behind meaningful, useful and profitable projects problem.
> certainly not interested or in a position to build things 100x better
in an organizational complexity of 150k -> 138k workforce, no one is in a position to make things 10x better, let alone 100x. Shedding 12k is a scapegoating gesture as if there is such a possibility, merely to ease the anxiety of the market price of shares. It doesn't even directly move the needle for profit/asset ratio, but it will help depressing wages with the theatre of "look what we had to do".