Comments on: Google cuts nearly 200 sales, marketing jobs

The recession's realities sink in further at Google, with a cut of about 1 percent of its workforce on top of earlier relatively small cuts.

[kevsmail]

I like Google products, but for some reason, I don't feel as sorry for these folks as I would at other tech companies.

[jake3373]

why, because they're rich? How would you feel if you were one of the people who no longer had a job? You may not even be able to afford internet, and you wouldn't be reading this at all!

[zextron]

Google just shows that it's a for profit organization like the so much hated Microsoft. Are they so scared that the salaries of 200 out of over 20.000 will bring them down?

Can?t they endure the loss during this crisis? I believe the blow will be much heavier on those losing their job. If they were different they would put people first but, as seen before (China and human rights), Google is all about money, like all other big corporations.

[renGek]

ummmm 200 employees out of 20,222....obviously its call house cleaning.
Every company have these employees. You must have worked with at least one or maybe you are that one who just don't pull their weight. I'm dealing with one now who was given a great opportunity to work but instead spends much of their time on places like match.com. When the economy is like this, its easier to get rid of the dead weights and cite restructuring as the reason. Much harder for them to get sued.

[knowles2]

And I am sure you are spending your time wisely on cnet.com.
May be you should be setting an example for your employees.

[hippypink]

They dont really need to fire anyone, because remember, they average $1,000,000 in revenue per employee there, annually.

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