Cultivate Search Engine Positioning, Inc. » Layoffs http://cultivateseo.com/blog Search Engine Marketing Tips and Tricks Thu, 13 Aug 2009 23:14:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Economy hits Google http://cultivateseo.com/blog/economy-hits-google-62 http://cultivateseo.com/blog/economy-hits-google-62#comments Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:15:21 +0000 Mike http://mfarley.us/?p=62 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 is crumbling. It’s just another tech company, a tech giant, but a company nonetheless.

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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 it is Yahoo! is probably quite worried.

With 14,000+ employees, will a few thousand make a difference to the operatiions–probably not. But as TechCrunch aptly puts it Yahoo! has been talent starved and making the pool even more shallow is not going to help.

If the layoffs our, it will be the second series of layoffs for the major company just this year. In January they laid off 1,000 employees.

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