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Google Memo On Cost Cuts Sparks Heated Debate Inside Company (bloomberg.com)
"A 2016 document proposing cost cuts at Alphabet's Google, including fewer promotions and bonuses, sparked heated debate when it was shared inside the technology company for the first time this week," reports Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter. "At a companywide townhall meeting on Thursday, Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai fielded questions about the proposals, some of which have been implemented." From the report: The ideas were in a 2016 slide deck drafted by the company's human resources department from a brainstorming session. The document, portions of which were read to Bloomberg News, was circulated in recent days by employees via Google's internal communications systems. It detailed proposed changes to employee compensation, benefits and perks. The document also discussed how the proposals could be best presented to employees to minimize frustration, according to one of the people. That caused the most anger among some staff after the document was circulated, said this person.
Perhaps the most significant change in the proposal called for trimming the rate of promotions. Each year, a certain number of employees are up for promotions based on performance and other metrics. The slide deck suggested reducing this by 2 percentage points. The document said this could be rolled out without upsetting staff because workers didn't know what the existing rate was, so wouldn't notice if it declined. The brainstorming deck also proposed reducing wage bumps when workers get promoted. It also suggested changing Google's approach to "spot bonuses," sums that managers can award at any time of year. Managers receive emails reminding them to dispense this money. The slide deck proposed ending the emails, arguing that few people would notice. The proposal also included converting holiday gifts to staff into charitable donations -- something Google did at the end of 2016. Google confirmed the veracity of the 2016 document, although it was never presented to the company's top management.
Perhaps the most significant change in the proposal called for trimming the rate of promotions. Each year, a certain number of employees are up for promotions based on performance and other metrics. The slide deck suggested reducing this by 2 percentage points. The document said this could be rolled out without upsetting staff because workers didn't know what the existing rate was, so wouldn't notice if it declined. The brainstorming deck also proposed reducing wage bumps when workers get promoted. It also suggested changing Google's approach to "spot bonuses," sums that managers can award at any time of year. Managers receive emails reminding them to dispense this money. The slide deck proposed ending the emails, arguing that few people would notice. The proposal also included converting holiday gifts to staff into charitable donations -- something Google did at the end of 2016. Google confirmed the veracity of the 2016 document, although it was never presented to the company's top management.
the 1% is still going to impose their will upon them. I mean what is these people thinking? it's not like they are entitled to the fruits of their labour.
The reason they can attract so many great employees despite being a huge company is because of a culture of taking care of their employees better than most big companies.
I hear they attract overweight genderconfused people with funny-coloured hair now. Is that what you'd call "great employees"?
The moment they become just another HP, IBM, etc, they will start to degrade quickly.
They've always thought themselves a little special. Or a lot special.
C'mon, give it up. Google got caught out celebrating their employees political voices, whilst going behind their employees back to lobby government to make those voices criminal, Google will not send their employees to prison for activism against Google, ohh no, the government will do that and Google will try to protect their employees and fail, boo hoo, cough, cough, tee hee.
Google played the game that would garner the best as bait, get them hooked and then down come the fucking screws. Bend the fuck over, arm the military industrial complex, spy on citizens, control and manipulate them, shut the fuck up (other than divide and conquer SJW shite oh no that is actively promoted) or fired and deemed unemployable.
Google are the establishment propagandist and censorship celebre. Alphabet and the big shit are as evil as their actions indicate. The socially minded research that routinely fails to succeed, nothing but a cynical exercise in marketing. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=duck... and block gmail (give everyone lots of notice, perhaps a block google gmail day, where everyone could mark gmail as spam, use Yandex instead, they will call you a Russian bot and that is always fun.)
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
You got modded down because you are siding with google even after they fired him.
Precisely: I think google did the right thing but there are a lot of exceptionally delicate snowflakes here who cannot abide by dissenting opions.
You are ok with hurting people because of their beliefs and that is NOT OK.
His actions got him fired, not his beliefs. Spelling out your beliefs in a manifesto and relentlessly plugging it until people take notice is an action not a belief.
SJW n. One who posts facts.