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Google is a massive company. There are some incredibly unprofitable departments that have a negative impact per employee. When cutting back at that scale it’s

• lesuorac 3y ago
  Well; I think you're going to have a great deal of trouble showing that the 6% layoff in 2023 was targeted to "incredibly unprofitable departments" considering basically every department had fired employees. But also Google then spent like 8 months of salary per fired employee (severance & etc). Surely it's cheaper to figure out how to move the employee from the unnamed "incredibly unprofitable department" to a profitable department. Like Google had 186,779 employees end of 2022 Q3 which drops down to 182,381 in 2023 Q3. --- To get back onto the article, it does make the claim of "tech company workforces have largely returned to pre-pandemic levels".