Google May Cut Its Workforce After Merger

[HardOCP News]

In a recent blog post, Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt warned that job cuts are coming after the acquisition of DoubleClick goes through. Not that it wasn’t expected but it sucks just the same for those people losing their jobs.

"As with most mergers, there may be reductions in headcount. We expect these to take place in the U.S. and possibly in other regions as well," he wrote. The process of determining the right staffing levels in the U.S. is expected to be completed in the U.S. by early April, and could take longer for offices outside the country, he said.

 

[Elios]

love how there cutting job in the US first nice...

 

[Fharakin]

What do you expect? The problem is they won't cut executives, they will create new positions for those over paid asshats.

 

[Azhar]

love how there cutting job in the US first nice...

Probably easier. Theres thousands of employees here which may not be needed. But abroad, employment with Google may be more selective, so the hard part would be deciding who is able to be laid off without disrupting production.

Take journalism for example. You don't want to lay off the guy holding the camera for the reporter out in the field, but you're likely to lay off the guy that frequently stand around the water cooler in the home office.

 

[Exavior]

Probably easier. Theres thousands of employees here which may not be needed. But abroad, employment with Google may be more selective, so the hard part would be deciding who is able to be laid off without disrupting production.

Take journalism for example. You don't want to lay off the guy holding the camera for the reporter out in the field, but you're likely to lay off the guy that frequently stand around the water cooler in the home office.

But that is a different field. In this case you are going to be cutting redundent positions. That would be more along the lines of do you cut the camera guy working in the US or the camera guy working in Europe.

The only valid reasoning I could see for cutting US jobs is if they are moving their ad stuff into doubleclick's stuff which doubleclick being the dominate system. In that case it would be better to have those who designed the system keep mantaining it instead of training new people to take care of it. However if they are merging doubleclick's system into theirs then it would make more sense to keep the google people around instead and get rid of the double click guys after the two systems are merged.

Although I would guys just like with other companies it is who gets paid more, get rid of them.

 

[AaronP]

My guess is that when they purchased them they saw that the company needed to trim the fat, it's common in mergers.

 

[idividebyzero]

I doubt they are going to bitch that much with their google stock. Like that janitor that became a millionaire just because of the stock options and being an early employee