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• izacus 4y ago
  So basically they want to force Alphabet to fire people, the company itself hasn't decided to do so yet?
  • fatneckbeardz 4y ago
    they are technically owners of the company. so yes. that is what activist investors do.
  • dilyevsky 4y ago
    Or they heard google is already planning to do it (which a lot of ppl heard too) and trying to get ahead of it in the news cycle
    • UncleMeat 4y ago
      Who has heard it? The rumors presented in the article are about the renaming of the performance review system, not actual evidence or even rumoring of layoffs. This system was announced in like March. Nothing about it has changed since then.
  • valdiorn 4y ago
    "the company" is it's investors, or the will of the majority of the investors, at least. A company does not have agency or free will.
    • hoseja 4y ago
      Google "emergence".
    • UncleMeat 4y ago
      Google has split voting and non-voting shares. Larry and Sergey have majority control over the company.