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At an all-hands meeting last week, Google executives responded to employee questions about declining morale even with financial performance improving.

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 5 months ago (1 children)

“We’ve noticed a significant decline in morale, increased distrust and a disconnect between leadership and the workforce,” a comment posted on an internal forum ahead of the meeting read. “How does leadership plan to address these concerns and regain the trust, morale and cohesion that have been foundational to our company’s success?”

Google is using artificial intelligence to summarize employee comments and questions for the forum.

bruh

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

Nearly certainly that's collective action by the tech companies to lower salaries and reduce employee negotiation power.

Tech workers need unions yesterday.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago

We’d appreciate “don’t be a dickwad” at this point.

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

but you can only make line go up by being evil!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't matter. 10s or 100s of thousands of people are lined up ready to take any job at Google.

Not like Google has high quality for most of its products in the last 15 years.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ever since wave shut down.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I forgot about wave until my friend brought it up last night. I miss wave so much. Rip you beautiful Collab tool

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I used to play DND with it. It was the most interesting thing Google ever made.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

We used it to discuss and plan weekend hiking trips. It felt so ahead of everything else they had at the time

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

TL;DR: "Look, you are here to make value for shareholders only. Everything else is expendable."

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

Someone mistyped 'morals'? Ysk.