Google’s executives gave details on Wednesday on how the tech giant will sunset its diversity initiatives and defended dropping its pledge against building artificial intelligence for weaponry and surveillance in an all-staff meeting.

  • @cogman
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    47 days ago

    Oh it’s simple “we’ve hired too many employees. Instead of laying people off we’ll treat everyone like shit until enough people leave to meet our goals”.

    • @[email protected]
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      47 days ago

      But the math says that treating those employees well will still get you more money.

      The problem is that it won’t necessarily happen this quarter.

      • @[email protected]
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        37 days ago

        It’s all about motivations. Are they motivated first by the performance of the business, or by class warfare? Only the latter adequately explains observed behavior.

        • @[email protected]
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          26 days ago

          None of the executives are motivated first by class warfare. They’re motivated by short term share value increases - which invariably causes the kind of pains which pushes everyone towards class warfare, IMO.

          • @[email protected]
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            06 days ago

            Some, not all. CEOs are people (sorta) with their own flaws and prejudices. Elon is, I believe, a clear example of a billionaire putting class warfare first. That would match his behavior perfectly.

    • @[email protected]
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      16 days ago

      we’ve hired too many employees. made it a policy to strategically remove talent availability from our competitors and now we’re arse deep in staff.

      Personally i’d like them to drown in talent that gets to pull down a paycheque for doing fuck all. Actions, consequences, github wins in the end