Tag Archives: Layoffs
Economy hits Google

Economy hits Google

Posted 30 November 2008 | By Mike | Categories: Google | No Comments

Rumor has it Google has been laying off hundreds of ‘employees’ since August. I use the quotes because they technically were contractors and not actual employees, meaning the reason you haven’t heard about them is due to the loop hole of contractors being an ‘operational expense’.
The mystique surrounding Google as being this untouchable super-company [...]

Yahoo! Layoffs Coming

Posted 21 October 2008 | By Mike | Categories: Yahoo! | No Comments

According to TechCrunch, the Wall Street Journal, and various search engine blogs around the web, Yahoo! is planning to layoff between 1,000 – 3,000 employees.
Now as we know, recession coming or not, Yahoo! would have had to do some layoffs regardless due to it’s current state. But with the financial market what [...]