The most colourful and envied company today seems to not be immune to the financial fallout that the economy has placed the world in – or are they ?
If projects aren’t working you need t0 take a position to move on – is this all they are doing – are they just being smart ?
Yesterday Google announced plans to cut 100 jobs. Cuts include recruitment staff, as well as the redundancy of three engineering offices and the shutdown of a handful of projects.
Services most affected by the cutbacks include Dodgeball, a mobile social network (to be discontinued entirely); messaging site Jaiku, where further development will cease; Google Video, which in a few months will no longer accept uploads; and Notebook, a web bookmarking service, which will stop accepting new users.
Details of how these and other services will be affected are on TechCrunch.
Offices in Texas, Norway and Sweden will also be impacted. Back at the Googleplex in California, HR will suffer the brunt of cutbacks, says the Guardian.
At the time of its 2004 debut on the New York Stock Exchange, Google employed about 3000 people. Its current labor force totals around 20,000, not including 4300 interns, contractors and temps. Last week it was revealed that the search and ad giant laid off a “substantial number” of the latter.
| Website: | google.com |
| Location: | Mountain View, California, United States |
| Founded: | September 7, 1998 |
| IPO: | August 19, 2004 |
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