Source:Valleywag
“FYI, Google is about to layoff all of their temp/contract recruiters to do some cost cutting,” whispers a tipster. We knew it had to happen sometime, but didn’t Google exec Marissa Mayer just say laying off surplus employees would indicate Google has become “too dry, too corporate, too much about making money. too dry, too corporate, too much about making money”? Oh, wait. That was her defense for keeping around the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button which costs the company $110 million a year, by some estimates. Mayer’s no efficiency expert, so let’s not rely on her opinions. Laying off recruiters, people who get paid for adding bodies willy=nilly, is a sensible first step to curing Google’s hiring bloat. Next, how about some executives?
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Source:Valleywag
Mark Zuckerberg in his own words:
It’s hard to quantify that because this isn’t a short-term thing. If an event [like] this happens and our users get spammed then they trust the site less and they use it less, then that could affect us tremendously down the line, even if it doesn’t affect it right at this point.
No, that’s not the Facebook founder’s mea culpa on the much-derided Beacon advertising program. It’s Zuckerberg’s deposition account of rival network ConnectU’s attempts to harvest emails from Facebook profiles. But Zuckerberg’s claim that the impact of losing user trust is “immeasurable” is just as apropos today as it was three years ago.
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