Google Downsizes Its HR Department
Not even Google is exempt from the effects of the recession. The search engine giant is downsizing its staff by a hundred, but none of the technical positions are affected. The powers that be have decided that since they won’t be hiring as much people as before, they might as well trim down those who are doing the hiring. Ouch. Excerpts:
Our first step to address this was to wind down almost all our contracts with external contractors and vendors providing recruiting services for Google. However, after much consideration, we have with great regret decided that we need to go further and reduce the overall size of our recruiting organization by approximately 100 positions.
The message was posted on Google’s blog by Laszlo Bock, Vice President of People Operations. Guess everyone’s feeling the crunch, including Google. The company is open to transfers though, so if those who were laid off happen to fit in another posts within the company, they can go for it. The wording is vague on whether they’ll have to go through a re-application process though.
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