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Google employees question execs over 'decline in morale' after blowout earnings (www.cnbc.com)

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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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[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 55 points 6 months ago

Huh who would have seen that coming out of prioritising income over employees (and users)

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 13 points 6 months ago

Exactly, the CEO uses the word "expense" to refer to employees at least 4 times according to my count.

“The problem is a couple of years ago — two years ago, to be precise — we actually got that upside down and expenses started growing faster than revenues,” said Porat

They even joke that they need to give a Finance 101 Ted Talk, as if that will help. From their perspective, employees are not people. They're not even resources to be nurtured. They're expenses. And the company has a duty to keep expenses low.

What a tone-deaf response.

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