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Google lays off staff from Flutter, Dart and Python teams weeks before its developer conference | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
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[–] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago (2 children)

“As we’ve said, we’re responsibly investing in our company’s biggest priorities and the significant opportunities ahead,” said Google spokesperson Alex García-Kummert. “To best position us for these opportunities, throughout the second half of 2023 and into 2024, a number of our teams made changes to become more efficient and work better, remove layers, and align their resources to their biggest product priorities. Through this, we’re simplifying our structures to give employees more opportunity to work on our most innovative and important advances and our biggest company priorities, while reducing bureaucracy and layers”

There was this incredible management consultant in france in the 18th century. Name eludes me, but if he was still around Google could hire him and start finding some far more convincing efficiencies.

The guy was especially good at aligning resources to remove layers

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Robespierre?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I also cannot name him from the top of my head...interesting

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Or any part of your head, I imagine.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You could make a religion out of this.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

No don't