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Can someone with an MBA or a business understanding explain why they would even make this announcement if it is a small number of roles in the company? Why not
by sjg007 7y ago
Can someone with an MBA or a business understanding explain why they would even make this announcement if it is a small number of roles in the company? Why not just reorganize? I don’t get it unless it’s a signal to the market that the execs are looking at cloud compute.
- paxys 7y agoIt's not an announcement as much as a legal obligation to disclose, and news sources just pick up on it.
- stygiansonic 7y agoThis is correct. In many jurisdictions, when a certain number of employees are laid off in a given amount of time, they are required to disclose this to the government. For example, California has the WARN act: https://www.shouselaw.com/employment/warn-act.html https://www.shouselaw.com/employment/warn-act.html
- sjg007 7y agoSo this is a WARN act announcement?
- stygiansonic 7y agoIf it is you can expect it to show here in a few days: https://www.edd.ca.gov/Jobs_and_Training/Layoff_Services_WARN.htm#ListingofWARNNotices https://www.edd.ca.gov/Jobs_and_Training/Layoff_Services_WAR...
- drdeadringer 7y agoIIRC, WARN announcements are triggered if at least 50 people are being laid off at the same time.
- NonEUCitizen 7y agoNote there's also a federal WARN act (link above mentions California's WARN is modeled after federal, with additional protections for workers): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_Adjustment_and_Retraining_Notification_Act_of_1988 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_Adjustment_and_Retraini...
- sjg007 7y agoI don’t believe that. I’ve been at public companies that reorg mid level with no announcement.
- jm4 7y agoIt doesn’t have to do with public or private. It’s based on the number of employees affected as well as some other factors. Check out the WARN Act.
- sjg007 7y agoI know what the WARN Act is.
- luckydata 7y agono, you've been at companies that had reorgs that didn't get picked up by the press. They still had to disclose them to the labor department if they were large enough in states that have reporting requirements for those events.
- sjg007 7y agoNone of this makes sense for Google to do.
- luckydata 7y agoWhy? It probably has to do with the two most recent acquisitions, Looker and Appsheet. They both go into GCP and I bet there's a bunch of folks there working on Data Studio and whatever equivalent of Appsheet they had before that need to find themselves a new job. I don't understand the negativity about this non-news.
- Anka33 7y agoSounds like communism