Google Plans To Fire 10,000 Bad Performance Employees

JAKARTA - Google does avoid terminating employment or layoffs, but does not rule out it will be done to employees who have low performance ratings.

Google parent Alphabet intends to introduce a new performance management system that could give power managers to fire thousands of its poor-performing employees starting early next year.

Below that, the manager will be asked to categorize 6 percent (different from the usual 2 percent) of the poor performing Alphabet workforce. This figure is equivalent to about 10,000 employees.

Therefore, employees who receive low performance ratings from their managers will be dismissed. Furthermore, ratings can also be used to stop providing incentives and stock awards.

Launching The Independent, Thursday, November 24, the company is facing several challenges this year, from the impact of the pandemic to rampant inflation.

"Obviously we are facing a challenging macro environment with more uncertainty in the future," said Google CEO Sundar Pichai last July. He also urged employees during previous months to increase productivity.

The storm of layoffs has occurred a lot in tech giants towards the end of the year. Facebook owner Meta said it had laid off thousands of employees, equivalent to 13 percent of its workforce this month.

Then, recently acquired Twitter, Elon Musk also cut nearly half of its employees worldwide. This is due to the decline in microblogging network revenue.