Google Lays Off 100 Recruiters; Planning to Lay off 10,000 Employees

Its not the small businesses anymore. Even the Giants like Google are feeling the pinch of a recession. Google in its efforts to cut HR related expenses has decided to layoff about 100 people worldwide. Although they are cutting jobs and releasing employees the cutting, so far, has been around the edges. This time it’s different because the company is cutting into its own staff

Google said on Wednesday, that it is laying off all recruiters. This is about one-quarter of the total number of recruiters currently hired by the company — Google has a workforce of 20 thousand. This move means it is slashing 1% of it’s workforce.

Why Google is doing this? Google is hiring fewer people than it used to — a lot fewer — so it needs fewer recruiters to get the job done.

According to the Google official blog, Laszlo Bock, vice president for HR , said: “Google is still hiring but at a reduced rate. Given the state of the economy, we recognized that we needed fewer people focused on hiring.”

PC Magazine Reported

Google may be preparing to lay off thousands of workers, if a Silicon Valley information service is to be believed. WebGuild cites anonymous inside sources as saying up to 10,000 Google jobs could be on the way out, with smaller scale layoffs already underway.

Quiet Cutbacks

“Hundreds” of employees have been let go in the past few months, the company’s sources claim — and, they say, a loophole has allowed Google to keep quiet about the cutbacks. The trick, WebGuild reports, all comes down to categories: Google classifies about 10,000 of its workers as “temporary operational expenses,” which means their positions are not official and could be eliminated without public notification. (Google officially reports having just over 20,000 full-fledged employees on staff. The additional 10,000 “temporary” positions speculated would bring the actual total to 30,000.)

“Google has hundreds of lawyers figuring out how not to get caught,” WebGuild President Daya Baran suggests. “One of them is by moving workers from job to job every few months so that their status remains temporary. That is why you probably have never spoken to the same person twice at Google and that is also why there is somebody new on the job and most times you know more about their job than they do,” he says.

Google has yet to publicly comment on any of the speculation.

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