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Not really newspeak. The difference is that you're still getting paid in between and still have a job, pretty different from getting laid off where you often do
by mgraczyk 4y ago
Not really newspeak. The difference is that you're still getting paid in between and still have a job, pretty different from getting laid off where you often don't get paid and don't have a job.
- mc32 4y agoBut it's still "prove you're still worth it". Instead of, we have the following teams with openings, please pick one you want to go to. No, it's, we have openings in the following teams, prove that one of them want you enough.
- mgraczyk 4y agoYeah sure but it's definitely different from being laid off. You can just look at the numbers. The vast majority of people end up on a new team and do not leave the company.
- willio58 4y agoTo put employees through this when meta and Google have billions in cash is disgusting.
- apetresc 4y agoBut... they are paying them. What are you proposing? That they dissolve the team and just give the employees a permanent pension while not requiring them to find a new team?
- willio58 4y agoI’m proposing that cuts like this are unnecessary for companies this flush with cash. It’s an excuse to cut staff with some reason to point to for doing so.
- mgraczyk 4y agoI work at Google and am strongly in favor of this vs pretty much any alternative. I'd be in favor even if I were one of the people on a dissolved team. Hard for me to see how this is bad for employees.
- criley2 4y agoIt's totally reasonable for a company to ask you to prove you're worth it or just fire you, just like it's totally reasonable for you to demand your company prove they're worthy to employ you (increase your pay or benefits) or jump to another opportunity I think the idea of bell curving people and firing the bottom is extremely dumb, a form of decimation with similar results. It's a culture destroyer and invents many perverse incentives in the company that are counter productive to "make great products". But ultimately I don't think it's unreasonable for someone to be authentically reviewed poorly and made to prove they should stay.
- pharrington 4y agoThe company is reducing the amount of workers on its payroll.
- sequoia 4y agoYou get garden leave while you apply for jobs internally. After 30 days (assuming you can't find a new position internally), it seems identical to having been laid off