> “to be deeply committed to our mission and focused on building great products, with speed and efficiency"
I hate this language. It sounds culty. Why can't a job just be a job? Why does everything have to have a god damn "mission"?
Either way, have some percentage of 2 million feds on the job market, and some percentage of the Google employees on the job market. Like somebody noted in the Verge comments, Zuckerberg's making a lot of the same sounds.
Q: 'What about the looming “low-performer” layoffs?'
Z: “The right thing to do is just rip the band-aid off. I think, in a lot of ways, it is a nicer thing to do for people who are probably not going to end up making it anyway.”It seems better than doing random layoffs, no?
I guess I'm just sick of companies massively overhiring, creating a ton of redundant employees in the process, and deciding to get rid of a ton afterward. We give these corporations so much power in our lives and they treat us like pawns. They control our healthcare and dictate where we live, they should treat this power with the responsibility it deserves.
It is a bit weird that contractually we have no expectations but socially we do.
They would be forced to, to some degree, if people decided to unionize. They'll never do it voluntarily.
Way less of a morale hit than layoffs, but it suffers a similar problem to all RIF methods where your high performers say "hmm conditions are that bad you're getting rid of people huh? I guess maybe I will take 6 months my annual salary and go get another job."