Google’s parent company Alphabet to lay off 10,000 employees through new ranking and performance improvement plan

A new performance management system could help managers push out thousands of underperforming employees starting early next year

A new performance management system could help managers push out thousands of underperforming employees starting early next year
A new performance management system could help managers push out thousands of underperforming employees starting early next year

CEO Sundar Pichai aims to make Alphabet 20% more efficient, hinting at job cuts

Alphabet, Google‘s parent company, is reportedly gearing up to lay off about 10,000 “poor performing” employees, or 6 percent of its workforce, in the Big tech layoff season kicked off by Meta, Amazon, Twitter, Salesforce, and more amid the rough global conditions.

The company’s CEO Sundar Pichai aims to make Alphabet 20 percent more efficient, hinting at job cuts. Reports earlier surfaced that Alphabet was giving some workers 60 days to apply for a new role at the company if their jobs are set to be cut.

Alphabet has a workforce of nearly 187,000 employees. Google has suspended hiring new employees and reportedly told some existing employees to “shape up or ship out” if expectations are not met.

According to a report in ‘The Information’, Google plans to ease out 10,000 employees through a new ranking and performance improvement plan.

“A new performance management system could help managers push out thousands of underperforming employees starting early next year. Managers could also use the ratings to avoid paying them bonuses and stock grants,” the report mentioned.

Under the new system, managers have been asked to categorize 6 percent of employees, or roughly 10,000 people, as low performers in terms of their impact on the business. The new system also reduces the percentage of employees that can score a high rating.

Additionally, the new performance system at Alphabet could use the ratings to avoid paying bonuses and stock grants, according to the report.

The median compensation for an Alphabet employee last year was around $295,884, according to a US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing.

Alphabet reported a net profit of $13.9 billion in the third quarter (Q3), down 27 percent from a year earlier, while revenue increased 6 percent to $69.1 billion, amid global slowdown and recession fears.

Pichai had said the company is “still investing in long-term projects like quantum computing. But it’s important “to be smart, to be frugal, to be scrappy, to be more efficient”.

“We’re committed to taking care of our employees. I think we’re just working through a tough moment macroeconomically and I think it’s important we as a company align and work together,” said Pichai.

Earlier, addressing the gathering at the Code Conference in the US, Pichai said that the more the company tries to understand the macroeconomic conditions, it feels very uncertain about it.

“The macroeconomic performance is correlated to ad spending, the consumer spends, and so on,” he told the audience.

[With Inputs from IANS]

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