Google to reportedly lay off employees in the coming year

In the upcoming year, Google is said to lay off its employees and the company has already started evaluating the performance of employees across verticals.

The tech giant has developed a performance management system called Google Reviews and Development, which will help managers identify employees with the worst performance. The company is expected to start the evaluation process in the first half of next year.

According to a report, Google employees in Switzerland have sent a letter to the company’s Vice President of human resources stating their worries. In the letter, Google employees stated that “at least some managers were aggressively pressured to apply a quota” in the employee evaluation process.

In the letter, Google employees also mentioned that the quota allotment could lead to negative ratings and eventually lead to job cuts in the future. The report also stated that some Google employees are interpreting the recent changes in performance management as a warning that the company may be planning broader layoffs.

CEO Sundar Pichai had already warned employees to be more productive and also expressed his disappointment about employees not working hard enough. He said, “There are real concerns that our productivity as a whole is not where it needs to be for the headcount we have. (We need to) create a culture that is more mission-focused, more focused on our products, more customer-focused. We should think about how we can minimize distractions and really raise the bar on both product excellence and productivity.”