This is the best way to do headcount reductions imo. In large organisations there’s always someone who’s been there for a long time and gotten tired of the work, and that would gladly take this type of offer if it’s lucrative enough.
To demonstrate - imagine that you’ve been considering quitting your job for a while. Then someone comes along and says that if you do that, you also get some additional cash for free. You’d probably take it, right?
And if you necessarily need to reduce headcount, then there’s also the argument that if someone leaves voluntarily, then someone who wants to stay doesn’t have to get pushed out.
So yeah, I’m not against this
In my experience with this format, only the good ones are leaving and you’re stuck with the rest.
My last job did this. They offered more for those who had worked there longer. People with over 15 years got about a years pay and they all took it. People who had been there under a year got nothing so they all stayed.
I was going to take then they withdrew the offer for all devs. I think a lot tried to take it and they realised no one would be left. I would have got 3-4 months pay. Loads of institutional knowledge lost though, i left anyway a few months later.
Absolutely. The ones who’ve resigned mentally are fine within their positions. The people with all the business connections and references will be the ones to grab the money and simply start something new. It happened at my company. I was only 3 years in, so it wasn’t enough money for me to quit. But loads of good people left the company.
Depends on if the good people have better places to go, I guess. My guess is that you’re probably going to lose people who have some amount of tenure, especially if you’re the kind of company that gives equity that vests on a 4-year schedule. Even if you’re not, people with some amount of tenure will be the ones trending towards being checked out already.
Losing people with tenure means you lose organisational memory, which can definitely be negative.
This is all to say that as an organisation, you should think twice about doing any kind of layoff. They are all bad in their own way. This just happens to be the format that is least bad for most workers, which is why I prefer it.
Fuck is Pixel going to go away? Apparently the pixel 9 sold well
The Pixel 9 Pro is incredible. Writing this on it right now. I love it. Previously had the 6. I’ll be sad if they go away, for real.
I have pixel 9 which is my first pixel phone. I agree
it’s got 8 years of updates right? You think it’ll last until Google comes back into a pro hardware phase?
Who’s gonna update it?
GrapheneOS
Maybe they just want to downsize cause there isn’t as much to do nowadays when the OS is so mature?
This is not the way to do that. This is a way to get rid of your best people because, as the United States government is about to find out, when you offer a voluntary exit to people with a severance package the ones who know they have ability and are competent will take that package and leave and get better jobs. And the ones that know they suck or are too lazy are going to stay. There’s actually a list somewhere of companies that have done this and have gone under because of it.
Probably the aim of the failed state to be fair. Privatise talent, leave behind people alienate and blame. Shithole country.
I can’t imagine so, they’re only just now prepping the first pixel phone on their own in-house CPU (pixel 10) and development is underway for the following generation (pixel 11). To axe the line now would be crazy.
To be fair, to axe that would be a very Google thing to do.
First, we’ll take away the headphone jack.
Then, we’ll remove everything else!
Can Sundar Pichai please take the offer?
And Prabhakar Raghavan aka worsener of search
Sideways rectal pineapples for that chucklefuck.
Verizon let me root my 2018 phone and stop installing candycrush on it you fucking pieces of shit!!!
If you have any intent to play with Android OS variants or the stock OS, don’t buy Verizon devices. Ever. They will not give you the decryption key or unlock key.
Apple, Google, Samsung and Motorola all sell devices on their websites as full price or up to 36 month financing. You can get them carrier unlocked. Motorola and Google offer bootloader unlocking should you want to.
No, they will give me root access to the devices that I own. Or they will cease operations on this planet.
Luigi, is that you?
I can neither deny or confirm whether I am based
Verizon will let you transfer the phone to a different carrier after like 3 months of owning the phone.
Carrier unlock and bootloader unlock are very different things. All my 60x motorola Z phones can use any carrier Well, they could if I hadn’t replaced the antenna with a dummy resistor but that’s beside the point. The point is I cannot have administrative access to my phone and that means I cannot change something I really really need to change on them to make them useful for my purpose.
Essentially, I cannot “sudo” on these phones and that’s making them very difficult to use.
When you change carriers, they unlock it.
When I moved from Verizon to ATT on my phone, all the Verizon crap disappeared as soon as Verizon released the device. ATT then pushed an OTA that put all their bullshit a day or so later of course, but there was a window they’re when I probably could’ve gotten more access.
It’s carrier unlocked, but not bootloader unlocked, which what is needed for admin level access and removing the bloat
Are you able to buy unlocked directly from Google? I typically avoid the carrier when I can.
Buy an unlocked one from box box stores. Bought mine from best buy. Immediately threw GrapheneOS on it. Coming from a locked down Samsung s9 that I couldn’t root to an degoogled android experience I didn’t even have to root is fucking awesome!
Hilarious, I just got a reach out for working on the Pixel camera
Are you sure that wasn’t a reach around, instead of reach out?
plz
Have you considered voluntary redundancy?
No.
Have you considered involuntary redundancy?
So you’re being “voluntary” fired? You can’t quit when you want?
You don’t get severance when you quit.
Severance is usually worse if you wait to get fired rather than taking a voluntary exit.
If you aren’t happy at a job, taking an offered exit is often a good decision.
Get a payout for volunteering to quit. People are fired if not enough volunteer
It’s probably implied that if not enough people take this offer - people will be fired.
I’ve been through tech layoffs. Random people are axed and people who thought about leaving anyways stay. This is a much better solution where those who considered leaving anyways can take them up on the offer.
I hope they join Mozilla 😏
Ah yes, we need more laid off tech workers in the sector. We nearly don’t have enough!
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2069436850145993
50 States, 50 Protests, 1day
Feb 5 @ your downtown.
Have they done layoffs yet?
Last year, the teams responsible for Pixel hardware and Android software were merged into one division, and Google today announced a “voluntary exit program” for employees working in the Platforms & Devices group.
At least there’s some plausible reasoning for this, instead of blanket headcount reduction to pad profits. Reasoning doesn’t change much of course.
It’s still just an excuse to pad profits.
The whole market’s about to roll into recession. All the companies are trying to get ahead of their firing before the market goes tits up.
Probably.
I don’t work for Google. I’m but a voluntary
productcustomer. But if they could offer me a way to get away from them, I’d gladly take it.Right now I’m moving my personal domain over to cloudflare and email to mxroute. Considering setting up some calendar and similar groupware stuff on kubernetes on Oracles free tier as well.
That’s the other rub…if I want to cloud host anything, I get to choose between Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, and Alibaba. Wonderful selection we have there.
(I recognize there are smaller players out there like linode and ovh and a trillion VPS providers…only reason I’m considering Oracle is because they give so much free “forever”. And kubernetes is fun for me in like a jigsaw kind of way. Not like the puzzle but the guy from Saw)
I replaced most cloud services with my own Nextcloud instance. I like Nextcloud.
It rules!
I’ve seen enough traps set by Oracle to be extra afraid of any wooden horses they are offering up.
Oracle has been coasting on legacy crap for a long time. They’re just like IBM.
Forever is only forever until profit margins get tight or they have a bad enough fiscal quarter…
I have two free forever servers, they are alright, but they route weird. When I’m in China they go from Beijing to Japan and then to Korea causing packet loss and delays
Did they title the offer “Fork in the Road,” too?
