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At least, advance notice which might be long depending of the country, probably at least three months in France. Plus, Google will have issues justifying a cut
by WastingMyTime89 4y ago
At least, advance notice which might be long depending of the country, probably at least three months in France. Plus, Google will have issues justifying a cut for economic reason in much of Europe. They remain very profitable even if less than before so they might need due cause to fire people.
Generally speaking European laws protect the employees more than the shareholders. You can't really just employ a lot of people when things are doing well expecting to fire them if there is a downturn. It encourages companies to be more conservative regarding hiring which can be both a blessing and a curse.
- majewsky 4y ago> You can't really just employ a lot of people when things are doing well expecting to fire them if there is a downturn. Well, you can, but not as direct employees. The usual way is to enter a service contract with a different company who hires the employees and assigns them to work on bigcorp's tasks for 100% of their time. If bigcorp wants to cut costs, they just let the contract with the other company lapse and that company can fire their employees on the basis of "my own economic outlook is bad because we lost the bigcorp contract".
- htrp 4y agoBut at the same time the ServiceCo's employees also understand that this is a two tiered system with them at the bottom.
- onphonenow 4y agoI thought this was a reason Europe has struggled in tech a bit - hard to try things out. I also thought this was why lots is “on contract” - it’s better not to bring people into your actual team (which must have some negatives)