<story><title>Google Memo on Cost Cuts Sparks Heated Debate Inside Company</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-26/google-memo-on-cost-cuts-sparks-heated-debate-inside-company</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drugme</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Perhaps the most significant change in the proposal called for trimming the rate of promotions. Each year, a certain number of employees are up for promotions based on performance and other metrics. The slide deck suggested reducing this by 2 percentage points. The document said this could be rolled out without upsetting staff because workers didn’t know what the existing rate was, so wouldn’t notice if it declined.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;That last sentence is quite telling about Google&amp;#x27;s attitude toward its employees.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ajross</author><text>Oh come on, that&amp;#x27;s the way employers everywhere treat their employees.  There&amp;#x27;s nothing specific to Google here at all, really.  Every company that reaches the end of a growth curve needs to start finding revenue growth in the higher hanging fruit.  That means fewer perks and lower compenstation.  It happens everywhere.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google Memo on Cost Cuts Sparks Heated Debate Inside Company</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-26/google-memo-on-cost-cuts-sparks-heated-debate-inside-company</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drugme</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Perhaps the most significant change in the proposal called for trimming the rate of promotions. Each year, a certain number of employees are up for promotions based on performance and other metrics. The slide deck suggested reducing this by 2 percentage points. The document said this could be rolled out without upsetting staff because workers didn’t know what the existing rate was, so wouldn’t notice if it declined.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;That last sentence is quite telling about Google&amp;#x27;s attitude toward its employees.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DannyBee</author><text>It also said that Google doesn&amp;#x27;t have enough higher level work for people if it promoted them (because the promo rate is so much higher than industry average, and Google has shifted right in levels) but just about everyone ignored that.&lt;p&gt;You can&amp;#x27;t create larger scope&amp;#x2F;etc roles out of thin air (you actually have to need the work done), and levels always seem to right shift over time.</text></comment>