Yeah that's a really weird critique -- the linked article from November says they have sources telling them that Google was going to adjust their PIP so that 6%

Yeah that's a really weird critique -- the linked article from November says they have sources telling them that Google was going to adjust their PIP so that 6% instead of 2% of people fall into the lowest category. Then in December, Google gave details of their new ranking system --- and 6% of employees will fall into the lowest ranking category (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/22/google-tells-employees-higher-risk-of-low-performance-ratings-in-2023.html https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/22/google-tells-employees-highe...). I guess you could argue they didn't "announce layoffs" like the others, but when you start shuffling tens of thousands of employees into a PIP, is the result not the same?