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Re:What is Google doing with its open source teams? by davidcbc on Saturday January 28, 2023 @02:54PM (#34561059)
Random layoffs that affect high performers and low performers equally doesn't encourage performing higher. If anything it encourages performing lower because why bother if it's not going to even save your job?
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Re:What is Google doing with its open source teams? by djur on Saturday January 28, 2023 @03:43PM (#34561626)
It might not be so much about encouraging performance as encouraging compliance.
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Re:What is Google doing with its open source teams? by rqtwteye on Saturday January 28, 2023 @07:32PM (#34563574)
That’s my impression of large companies. They value compliance way more than performance.
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Re:What is Google doing with its open source teams? by raydev on Saturday January 28, 2023 @11:39PM (#34564984)
Because it doesn't matter. The idea that these companies are overflowing with "low performers" is a complete myth, a lie that people use to comfort themselves.

The Big Names are actually filled with so many smart and productive people that it doesn't matter who they lay off.

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