Wow... This all seems a bit cherry-picked... - The google metric doesn't make sense. In fact, the graph tells sort of the opposite story. Revenue per employee

Wow... This all seems a bit cherry-picked... - The google metric doesn't make sense. In fact, the graph tells sort of the opposite story. Revenue per employee shot up and then they did layoffs in response... huh? My guess is that this graph is missing the forecasts that are being used to make these decisions. Google likely has a similar chart, but one that goes out 5-10 years and is showing a concerning trend (that was certainly the case when I worked there). - Austerity is a government thing. I'm not connecting the dots between deficit reduction and corporate layoffs... - I thought the money supply calculations changed recently which is why the metric shot up in recent years. - How are you getting Microsoft was rewarded with 9.8M per employee for their "layoffs?" They cut 10k people, so wouldn't this mean if they had laid off 1 person, they would have earned 98B per layoff? This metric doesn't make sense. - The "other CEO" you link to runs a company with 200 employees. I'm not sure this is comparable to a company the size of Google.