According to the latest report, Google executives recently clearly told their employees to perform well or leave. They warned of layoffs if third-quarter results did not meet expectations.
Employees working in Google Cloud sales said they were told by senior department leaders that there would be “a comprehensive review of sales performance and overall productivity.”
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According to the message passed to the sales team, if the third-quarter results are “not good, then there will be blood.” Google employees said they were all worried about being laid off because the company had quietly extended its hiring freeze in August without making any announcements.
Google’s employees also need to be more attentive and more focused as the tough global economic situation forces a general tightening of belts across the tech industry, Google CEO Sundar Pichai told employees at an all-hands meeting late last month. productivity.
Pichai said he wanted to consult with employees on how to “get better results faster.” “It is clear that we are facing a challenging macroeconomic environment with greater uncertainty ahead, ” Pichai said. “The real concern is that our overall productivity is not where it should be with our current workforce.”
Google also reportedly announced a two-week hiring freeze last month but has so far not changed that decision, leaving employees fearful of the worst. One Google employee said that since Pichai’s remarks, “everyone has been talking about how the company tightens its belt to get by.”
Google isn’t the only tech company warning its employees. Mark Zuckerberg, CEO, and founder of Facebook’s parent company Meta called the current economic situation “one of the worst global economic downturns we’ve seen in recent years” and imposed a hiring freeze on the company, among other measures. A series of cost-cutting measures.
Zuckerberg also made it clear that the company would fire underperforming employees. “Actually, there may be a group of people in the company that shouldn’t be here,” Zuckerberg said at an all-hands meeting in late June.
Facebook’s social media rival Twitter has also recently started laying off workers. Earlier this year, Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal told employees in a message that the company was temporarily suspending hiring, citing recent growth and revenue lags behind expectations.
Tesla has been in turmoil since CEO Elon Musk agreed to buy Twitter for $44 billion, but Musk has since pulled out of the deal. Twitter is currently suing Musk in an attempt to get Musk to execute the acquisition under the terms of the original agreement.
