AM I NEXT? NO LOVE AT LINKEDIN (08/15/22)

MAY 10, 2023 — 716 EMPLOYEES TO LOSE THEIR JOBS

The company has announced, "With the market and customer demand fluctuating more, and to serve emerging and growth markets more effectively, we are expanding the use of vendors." In addition, the company will be withdrawing from the China market.

LinkedIn Corporate Communications…

Last week, we celebrated our 20th birthday by reflecting on the pride we all feel in the company we’ve built, and looking forward to the opportunity and responsibility we have in front of us. Over the years we've had to make hard decisions to ensure we were setting the company up to deliver on our vision, and I'm sharing one of those decisions today. As we guide LinkedIn through this rapidly changing landscape, we are making changes to our Global Business Organization (GBO) and our China strategy that will result in a reduction of roles for 716 employees.

Our colleagues who are impacted by this announcement have all made invaluable contributions to our company. I want to recognize the impact this decision has on the lives of those individuals. And I want all of you to know that the entire leadership team and I are dedicated to helping our colleagues during this transition and ensuring that they are treated with the care and respect they deserve.

AUGUST 15, 2022 — RESTRUCTURING AND LAYOFFS

“LinkedIn has laid off all the employees on the professional social network's global events marketing team amid continued economic uncertainty.

According to Chuck Jones, senior event marketing manager, "In a difficult turn of events, my entire team was laid off today at LinkedIn (our collective last day is September 9).”

JULY 30, 2020 — Original post…

Sunnyvale, California-based LinkedIn, the employment-related social media/networking platform owned by Microsoft, has announced a major reduction in force. Approximately six percent of their workforce, 960 employees, will be impacted.

According to CEO Ryan Roslansky...
"We are entering our new fiscal year with a greater sense of urgency than ever to stay ahead of the paradigm shifts our members are facing. Everywhere, people are adapting to new ways of staying connected, learning, networking, selling, hiring, and finding work. We got ahead of this shift in March and moved with speed to adapt and innovate. We added many new features to our products and even launched new products like virtual events, #OpenToWork, and virtual interview feedback. We used our platform to showcase trusted news & voices, made our recruitment tools free for those fighting the pandemic, and pledged to help 25 million people worldwide acquire the skills they need for free."

”And thanks to all of you and your hard work, we are seeing that sense of urgency and innovation reflected in strong member engagement, record numbers of hours spent learning on the platform, and in the continued momentum across Marketing Solutions, Premium, Learning Solutions, and Sales Solutions.”

”However, LinkedIn is not immune to the effects of the global pandemic. Our Talent Solutions business continues to be impacted as fewer companies, including ours, need to hire at the same volume they did previously.”

”Normally, we would have rolled out our annual plan at the end of June. But as I've shared at the Company All Hands, this year we've been taking our time to get the FY21 plan right given the changing dynamics around us. And in advance of sharing the entire plan, I want to focus today specifically on the most challenging decision we’ve made to move forward with our strategy.”

”to continue adapting and accelerating the company as we have been, we need to ensure we are focusing our efforts and resources against our most strategic priorities to set up the company for success today—and well into the future. When we took a hard look at the business, we decided we needed to make some hard calls.”

”After weeks of discussion and deliberation, the executive team and I have made the extremely difficult decision to reduce approximately 960 roles, or about 6 percent of our employee base, across our Global Sales and Talent Acquisition organizations. I’m sharing this news today so that everyone has the complete picture of these changes and why we are making them, and I want you to know these are the only layoffs we are planning.”

Change is coming. There will always be a tomorrow, no matter how much you may try to ignore it. There are no guarantees in life or promises for a bright future. Just because something bad hasn't happened yet, doesn't mean it won't. It can happen to anyone, anytime, anywhere. No one is guaranteed to wake up tomorrow and still have a job by evening. Are you now wondering, Am I Next?

AM I NEXT? NO LOVE AT APHABET / GOOGLE (01/19/24)

JANUARY 19, 2024 — YOUTUBE LAYOFFS

Google is continuing its efficiency and cost-containment initiatives and is laying off 100 YouTube employees who support content creators.

YouTube’s chief business officer, Mary Ellen Coe, noted, “We’ve made the decision to eliminate some roles and say goodbye to some of our teammates.”

“As we’ve said, we’re responsibly investing in our company’s biggest priorities and the significant opportunities ahead. To best position us for these opportunities, a number of our teams made changes to become more efficient and work better and to align their resources to their biggest product priorities. Some teams are continuing to make these kinds of organizational changes, which include some role eliminations globally.”

JANUARY 17, 2024 — “HUNDREDS” IN ADVERTISING SALES TEAM TARGETED

Continuing restructuring has cost several hundred advertising sales team members their jobs.

According to Chief Business Officer Philipp Schindler, “Sadly though, we will have to say goodbye to many highly talented and amazing sales colleagues. There’s no easy or best way to do this, but I’ve asked designated leaders to communicate personally with impacted folks. While I’m confident we’re doing the right thing for our customers, partners, and, ultimately, our business, this will be very hard for many, especially across our LCS teams. Going forward GCS will be our core channel for scaling growth by dynamically delivering the right treatment to every customer — while LCS will focus on transformational growth for our largest, most sophisticated customers."

JANUARY 12, 2024 — GOOGLE CONFIRMS LAYOFFS

It appears that Google has laid off 1,000+ employees as it switches to a functional organization model where one team will be responsible for hardware engineering across key business lines.

Google confirmed that it’s eliminated “a few hundred” roles in each of the separate hardware teams responsible for Pixel, Nest, and Fitbit products, and eliminating a similar number of roles on its knowledge and information product teams, including its core engineering and voice-activated Google Assistant software team.

Estimates put the layoffs at 1,000+ employees.

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023 — HUNDREDS OF RECRUITERS TARGETED

In addition to the previous lays offs, Google has confirmed it will be laying off additional hundreds of employees in its global recruitment teams.

JANUARY 20, 2023 — 12,000 EMPLOYEES TARGETED FOR LAYOFF

Google's parent company Alphabet has announced it's cutting 12,000 jobs or 6 percent of its workforce.

Googlers,

I have some difficult news to share. We've decided to reduce our workforce by approximately 12,000 roles. We've already sent a separate email to employees in the US who are affected. In other countries, this process will take longer due to local laws and practices.

This will mean saying goodbye to some incredibly talented people we worked hard to hire and have loved working with. I'm deeply sorry for that. The fact that these changes will impact the lives of Googlers weighs heavily on me, and I take full responsibility for the decisions that led us here.

Over the past two years we've seen periods of dramatic growth. To match and fuel that growth, we hired for a different economic reality than the one we face today.

I am confident about the huge opportunity in front of us thanks to the strength of our mission, the value of our products and services, and our early investments in AI. To fully capture it, we'll need to make tough choices. So, we've undertaken a rigorous review across product areas and functions to ensure that our people and roles are aligned with our highest priorities as a company. The roles we're eliminating reflect the outcome of that review. They cut across Alphabet, product areas, functions, levels and regions.

To the Googlers who are leaving us: Thank you for working so hard to help people and businesses everywhere. Your contributions have been invaluable and we are grateful for them.

While this transition won't be easy, we're going to support employees as they look for their next opportunity.

As an almost 25-year-old company, we're bound to go through difficult economic cycles. These are important moments to sharpen our focus, reengineer our cost base, and direct our talent and capital to our highest priorities.

Being constrained in some areas allows us to bet big on others. Pivoting the company to be AI-first years ago led to groundbreaking advances across our businesses and the whole industry.

Thanks to those early investments, Google's products are better than ever. And we're getting ready to share some entirely new experiences for users, developers and businesses, too. We have a substantial opportunity in front of us with AI across our products and are prepared to approach it boldly and responsibly.

All this work is a continuation of the "healthy disregard for the impossible" that's been core to our culture from the beginning. When I look around Google today, I see that same spirit and energy driving our efforts. That's why I remain optimistic about our ability to deliver on our mission, even on our toughest days. Today is certainly one of them.

MARCH 5, 2022 — GOOGLE LAYS OFF DOZENS OF GOOGLE CLOUD SUPPORT EMPLOYEES

Google has announced a restructuring of its Google Cloud operations and is outsourcing support functions to third-party vendors and laying off technical solutions engineers (mostly help desk representatives).

The layoffs impact support engineers in California, Texas, Zurich, and Australia.

DECEMBER 20, 2020 — ACTIFLO ACQUISITION COMPLETE, 54 LAYOFFS IN WALTHAM, MASSACHUSETTS

The company has announced that it will be permanently laying off 54 employees at the recently acquired backup and recovery software company, Actifio Inc., located in Waltham. Massachusetts. The layoffs will become effective on February 15, 2021. Actiflo is now part of the Google Cloud initiative.

JUNE 3, 2020 — Original post…

Mountain View, California-based Google, the iconic internet services and technology company, is responding to a significant decline in advertising revenues brought about the reduction in consumer spending and its impact on commercial advertising. Rather than affect current permanent employees, Google has decided to rescind employment offers to thousands of temps, vendors and contractors, mostly hired by third-party agencies.

In a notice to agencies who recruit and employ contractors, “We’re slowing our pace of hiring and investment, and are not bringing on as many new starters as we had planned at the beginning of the year and will not be moving forward to onboard the people that the agencies had already recruited for positions at Google.”

While many permanent employees are highly paid and have excellent benefits, contractors from third-party agencies generally receive lower salaries, fewer benefits, and have little or no job protection. Essentially Google has insulated themselves from the legal ecumberances of an unlawfyl termination.

Change is coming. There will always be a tomorrow, no matter how much you may try to ignore it. There are no guarantees in life or promises for a bright future. Just because something bad hasn't happened yet, doesn't mean it won't. It can happen to anyone, anytime, anywhere. No one is guaranteed to wake up tomorrow and still have a job by evening. Are you now wondering, Am I Next?

AM I NEXT? NO LOVE AT GLASSDOOR (03/26/23)

MARCH 26, 2023 — 140 LAYOFFS

According to Glassdoor CEO Christian Sutherland-Wong ...

Since last summer, we’ve provided regular updates on the shifting macroeconomic environment and the decisions we’ve made to operate conservatively amidst the uncertainty. From the start, we said that layoffs would be a last resort. Unfortunately, we have reached that point. It is with a heavy heart that I share that I have made the difficult decision to reduce our workforce. Today we are going to say goodbye to around 140 of our colleagues, who represent approximately 15% of the Glassdoor team.

It’s heartbreaking to say goodbye to such a talented group of people for reasons that are outside of their control. To those of you departing, I want to convey my deepest gratitude to each of you for your contribution to Glassdoor. Today is a very sad and emotional day, but I hope you can take pride in the meaningful work you’ve done during your time here.

Finally, I recognize that for all of us, it’s going to take time to grieve and process the changes we are experiencing today. I ask that we all do our best to support one another during this time. That is the Glassdoor way. Thank you.

MAY 18, 2020 — Original post…

Mill Valley, California-based Glassdoor, an anonymous employer review, and job search platform has announced a major reduction in force impacting 300 employees and reducing executive pay in an effort to match costs to reduced cash flow.

According to Glassdoor CEO Christian Sutherland-Wong ...

"It has been gut-wrenching to watch COVID-19 unfold and witness its impact on our business, let alone our lives. While we sought to act conservatively in an effort to weather this crisis, I am deeply saddened to share that these recent efforts to cut costs have not been enough.”

"I also want to be clear about one thing in particular: the people whom we are asking to leave are leaving through no fault of their own.”

"Words cannot describe how sad I am that we find ourselves in this position. It truly breaks my heart to say goodbye to such a talented group of people for reasons that are outside of their control."

"I want you to know that the list of departing employees was determined by our executive team, and I had the final call on every person," he wrote. "In most cases, your managers had no input into the decision. This was my call and I take full responsibility for every one of these decisions."

Change is coming. There will always be a tomorrow, no matter how much you may try to ignore it. There are no guarantees in life or promises for a bright future. Just because something bad hasn't happened yet, doesn't mean it won't. It can happen to anyone, anytime, anywhere. No one is guaranteed to wake up tomorrow and still have a job by evening. Are you now wondering, Am I Next?