Twitter and Meta aren't the only Silicon Valley companies shedding a significant chunk of their payroll in this tough post-Covid economy.
Alphabet, the parent company of Google, would thus intend to lay off 6% of its workforce, or around 10,000 people, according to The Independent.
In this particular case, the process by which these dismissals would be carried out was even specified.
A rating system
According to several sources, Alphabet would indeed intend to separate from its “less efficient” employees, from the point of view of the rating system that the group would have created.
Managers would then be instructed to make dismissals based solely on these results, which are also used to distribute bonuses to the best performing employees.
This rating system has the advantage of carrying out these dismissals on objective, measurable criteria that are common to the whole of this very large group.
However, everything depends on the variables taken into account, which were not detailed by the sources of The Independent.
Silicon Valley layoffs
The hypothesis of a major social plan, if it is not currently confirmed, has already been hovering over the group for several months.
Sundar Pichai, the CEO, had already invited his employees last July to be more productive, citing a particularly difficult economic context of recovery.
As for Meta, the group plans to part with 13% of its payroll.
Amazon is not spared by the difficult economic context either, with 10,000 departures announced.
Finally, Twitter, through the arrival of its new boss Elon Musk, halved its number of employees, and others have since been fired or resigned due to disagreements with Elon Musk's strategy for the social network.
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