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Google Shrinking Holiday Parties, Payroll?
WebProNews Feed —
... social activities such as dinner parties and museum outings in San Francisco."Contrast this to old celebrations that "included ice sculptures of the company's logo, virtual reality video game stations . . . sushi buffets and burlesque dancers." Money will be saved left and right. It's possible to chalk the change up to fiscal responsibility and a respect for the outside world's condition, though, rather than panicked cutting. What's more troubling is a fresh rumor about layoffs. Daya Baran writes, "Google has been quietly laying off staff and up to 10,000 jobs could be on the ...
Did You Used to Work at Google? Laid Off?
John Battelle's Searchblog —
... I am not so sure about articles like this one, which claim Google is quietly laying off 10,000 workers (all contract but still full time), but has not a single direct source. If this is true, why, ping me here or in email. If 10K of you are "afffected" I am sure one of you can drop a dime. ...
Google Layoffs: How to Reverse a 55% Stock Decline
WatchMojo.com Business & Technology —
... The inevitable is happening: Google to lay off people, up to 10,000 affected. Here is a look at Google’s headcount: ...
Google Layoffs in the Thousands with More to Come This Week
The Next Web —
... . One of the methods according to WebGuild is by moving workers from job to job every few months so that their status remains temporary. In their own words, “that is why you probably have never spoken to the same person twice at Google and that is also why there is somebody new on the job and most times you know more about their job than they do.” ...
Even Google Feels The Economic Crunch
The Channel Wire —
... But there are about another 10,000 people that the company calls "workers" who don't receive the same treatment as the full-time employees, even though these workers are employed full time by the company. As far back as October, Google's chief financial officer, Patrick Pichette, said that the number of those contractors would be reduced in order to help the company reduce costs. What's surprising, then, is that those rumors have started to resurface around the Web. A story on WebGuild notes that employees have been getting laid off by the company since August. The story, ...
Even Google Feels The Economic Crunch
ChannelWeb Complete Feed —
... But there are about another 10,000 people that the company calls "workers" who don't receive the same treatment as the full-time employees, even though these workers are employed full time by the company. As far back as October, Google's chief financial officer, Patrick Pichette, said that the number of those contractors would be reduced in order to help the company reduce costs. What's surprising, then, is that those rumors have started to resurface around the Web. A story on WebGuild notes that employees have been getting laid off by the company since August. The story, ...
Google to lay off 10,000? [Rumormonger]
Gawker: valleywag —
... "Up to 10,000 jobs could be on the chopping block according to sources," writes Daya Baran. Can I just say it? No. Google will not dump 10,000 of its roughly 30,000 workforce. "Sources" are wrong. Google's most likely action will be a stealthy attrition of maybe around 2,000 underperformers. That'll be bad enough. ...
Google Layoffs Are Temps, Not Full-blooded Employees
Google Watch —
... The question begs an answer after a blog post from WebGuild President Daya Baran surfaced today in which he said Google may cut as many as 10,000 jobs. ...
Google Layoffs: 10,000 Jobs Being Cut, Report Claims
Today @ PC World —
[image] Google may be preparing to lay off thousands of workers, if a Silicon Valley information service is to be believed. WebGuild cites anonymous inside sources as saying up to 10,000 Google jobs could be on the way out, with smaller scale layoffs already underway. Quiet Cutbacks "Hundreds" of employees have been let go in the past few months, the company's sources claim -- and, they say, a loophole has allowed Google to keep quiet about the cutbacks. The trick, WebGuild reports, all comes down to categories: Google classifies about 10,000 of its workers as "temporary ...
Google stock rains on the tech rally parade
VentureBeat —
... The more obvious thing to blame is the rumor of big layoffs (around 10,000) happening at Google. But it’s not yet clear if these cuts are really happening, but it seems highly unlikely it would be such a huge number. (We’ve inquired with Google about it and will update shortly.) ...
Google laying off 10,000? Maybe — lose the extra 0
VentureBeat —
... , which cites anonymous sources claiming that up to 10,000 jobs “could be on the chopping block.” ...
As Tech Job Cuts Mount, Layoff Rumors Pervade The Valley
BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily —
... On Monday, the fear of massive job cuts reached manic heights; a site called WebGuild reported that as many as 10,000 people could be affected by a coming round of layoffs at Google (GOOG). That’s basically ridiculous; the company has a little over 20,000 employees, plus another 10,000 or so contract workers. It would be no surprise to see Google cut some jobs, but to suggest that 10,000 could go is silly; ...
Layoffs in Google – Bad but Probably Reasonable
Profy —
Rumor of the day today is that even Google is not as immune to the recession as we used to believe with 500 people already laid off and a total of 10 thousand to be affected as well. And while the blogosphere is actively engaged in a conversation about the huge number of layoffs, everyone agrees that the rumor is most probably wrong and the number of people will not reach anything near 10,000.
The figure of 10,000 itself arrives from the fact that Google has 10 thousand people working for the company as temporary workers, or contractors without all the ...
Google Job Cuts: Creative HR or Pure Speculation?
Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim —
... It might be just a dirty rumor - but in light of the economic woes of many large corporations we cant be that surprised that Google could be laying workers off. An article over at WebGuild speculates that Google’s job cuts were affecting nearly 10,000 workers. ...
Google is trimming “operational expenses”; read layoffs
Boy Genius Report —
As large, powerful and influential a company is, no one is recession-proof. Internet search giant Google has been laying off employees since this summer, and it has been doing so under the news radar for the most part. The SEC requires companies to disclose information regarding layoffs but apparently Google had slipped around the rule and reported its Q3 earnings as expected by saying it had cut down on “operational expenses”. Though Google officially has 20,123 employees, there are an additional 10,000 which are just labeled as temporary operational ...
Google Round Up: Evil Layoffs, Chrome Speed Test, Street Views
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs —
... , Nov 26, 2008 10:14 AM [image] Here are several short updates on things that Google has been up to. The search giant has been quietly laying off thousands of contractors; its Chrome browser was recently rated as the speediest; and the Street Views user interface gets a re-vamp. Google has been letting go of workers and avoiding nasty headlines through a loophole in legal law, it appears. According to reports , Google has about 30,000 employees, though only 20,000 are officially listed as full-time. The other 10,000 are listed as contractors. Since these contractors aren't ...
