谷歌收紧绩效考核，万名员工或遭辞退
过去一年，围绕返回办公室办公、工作效率下降及职场未来的争论无休无止，在这种环境下，绩效考核本已令人心乱如麻，而谷歌（Google）好像还觉得不够，决定进一步收紧年终绩效考核，越发加剧了谷歌员工的工作焦虑。
据The Information早些时候报道，谷歌已经要求经理们选出6%对公司营收贡献较小的“低效员工”（约1万人），而按照原考核体系，这一比例为2%。也就是说，无论实际情况如何，能够获得较高评分的员工数量都将减少。
在科技行业大裁员之际推出如此政策，谷歌的员工难免紧张。
对于该公司是否会进行裁员，一位员工在接受《商业内幕》（Business Insider）采访时说：“领导层并未排除这种可能性，但也没由表示公司会这么做”。
一般而言，绩效考核并无多少用处，因为企业对绩效的定义常常含糊其辞。而另一方面，虽然营收并非完全直接取决于个体员工，但谷歌传达的信息已经表明公司对此极为在意。
在最近的第三季度，谷歌的首席执行官桑达尔·皮查伊表示，公司将进一步聚焦重点业务。根据谷歌发布的财报，其第三季度营收仅增长6%，为过去十来年第二低增幅。与一年前同期相比，该季度其员工的人均营收下降了近15%。
谷歌的高管表示，调整绩效考核只是为了提高员工的工作效率，经过两年多的新冠疫情之后，这些员工已经适应了新的工作生活平衡理念。但据The Information报道，谷歌的员工认为，公司进行这些调整无非是在营收下降、经济衰退的背景下为来年裁员做好准备而已。
他们会有这种想法也并不稀奇。疫情封控措施解除后，科技公司大多陷入挣扎。此前的繁荣推动Meta、谷歌等公司飞速增长、不断扩军，现在则是大厦将倾，一地鸡毛。
根据Challenger, Gray & Christmas提供的数据，仅在今年11月，各大科技公司宣布裁撤的岗位数量就达到了31,200个。Challenger, Gray & Christmas是一家就裁员事宜为雇主提供咨询服务的公司。
今年11月初，Meta裁员1.1万人，首席执行官马克·扎克伯格承认，公司在扩大业务、扩招员工时对疫情繁荣存在误判。埃隆·马斯克入主推特（Twitter）后直接裁掉了一半员工。在此之前，Snap已经裁掉约20%的员工，Netflix、Coinbase、Robinhood和特斯拉（Tesla）都削减了员工人数。亚马逊（Amazon）最近表示，其计划裁减大约1万名员工。
谷歌已经在悄悄缩减成本，不仅削减了差旅预算，还取消了团建和联谊活动，有些团队甚至整个关停，部分员工被要求重新申请其他职位。谷歌尚未宣布大规模裁员计划，但如果询问其员工，答案似乎昭然若揭，山景城总部内外，大家都在关注这家科技巨头是否会成为下一家对员工开刀的公司。
“谷歌的高管会想裁员的。”该公司的一位前高管告诉《商业内幕》，“现在他们只是想通过增加员工的恐惧感来整顿一下公司文化”。（财富中文网）
译者：梁宇
审校：夏林
过去一年，围绕返回办公室办公、工作效率下降及职场未来的争论无休无止，在这种环境下，绩效考核本已令人心乱如麻，而谷歌（Google）好像还觉得不够，决定进一步收紧年终绩效考核，越发加剧了谷歌员工的工作焦虑。
据The Information早些时候报道，谷歌已经要求经理们选出6%对公司营收贡献较小的“低效员工”（约1万人），而按照原考核体系，这一比例为2%。也就是说，无论实际情况如何，能够获得较高评分的员工数量都将减少。
在科技行业大裁员之际推出如此政策，谷歌的员工难免紧张。
对于该公司是否会进行裁员，一位员工在接受《商业内幕》（Business Insider）采访时说：“领导层并未排除这种可能性，但也没由表示公司会这么做”。
一般而言，绩效考核并无多少用处，因为企业对绩效的定义常常含糊其辞。而另一方面，虽然营收并非完全直接取决于个体员工，但谷歌传达的信息已经表明公司对此极为在意。
在最近的第三季度，谷歌的首席执行官桑达尔·皮查伊表示，公司将进一步聚焦重点业务。根据谷歌发布的财报，其第三季度营收仅增长6%，为过去十来年第二低增幅。与一年前同期相比，该季度其员工的人均营收下降了近15%。
谷歌的高管表示，调整绩效考核只是为了提高员工的工作效率，经过两年多的新冠疫情之后，这些员工已经适应了新的工作生活平衡理念。但据The Information报道，谷歌的员工认为，公司进行这些调整无非是在营收下降、经济衰退的背景下为来年裁员做好准备而已。
他们会有这种想法也并不稀奇。疫情封控措施解除后，科技公司大多陷入挣扎。此前的繁荣推动Meta、谷歌等公司飞速增长、不断扩军，现在则是大厦将倾，一地鸡毛。
根据Challenger, Gray & Christmas提供的数据，仅在今年11月，各大科技公司宣布裁撤的岗位数量就达到了31,200个。Challenger, Gray & Christmas是一家就裁员事宜为雇主提供咨询服务的公司。
今年11月初，Meta裁员1.1万人，首席执行官马克·扎克伯格承认，公司在扩大业务、扩招员工时对疫情繁荣存在误判。埃隆·马斯克入主推特（Twitter）后直接裁掉了一半员工。在此之前，Snap已经裁掉约20%的员工，Netflix、Coinbase、Robinhood和特斯拉（Tesla）都削减了员工人数。亚马逊（Amazon）最近表示，其计划裁减大约1万名员工。
谷歌已经在悄悄缩减成本，不仅削减了差旅预算，还取消了团建和联谊活动，有些团队甚至整个关停，部分员工被要求重新申请其他职位。谷歌尚未宣布大规模裁员计划，但如果询问其员工，答案似乎昭然若揭，山景城总部内外，大家都在关注这家科技巨头是否会成为下一家对员工开刀的公司。
“谷歌的高管会想裁员的。”该公司的一位前高管告诉《商业内幕》，“现在他们只是想通过增加员工的恐惧感来整顿一下公司文化”。（财富中文网）
译者：梁宇
审校：夏林
As if performance reviews weren’t already positioned to be stressful enough in a year shadowed by exhaustive debates around return to office, lost productivity, and the future of work, employees at Google are bracing for ramped up work anxiety as the Silicon Valley giant intensifies its performance review process for the end of the year.
Google, The Information reported earlier last week, has asked managers to identify 6% of employees—roughly 10,000 people—as “low performers” in terms of their impact on the company’s bottom line. The old system asked them to identify 2% of underperforming employees. This means that the number of people able to score high marks, whatever that actually looks like, gets smaller.
Coming on the heels of thousands of cuts across the tech industry, employees are nervous.
One staffer told Insider of layoff speculation at the company that “Leadership hasn’t ruled it out when pressed, but they haven’t given any indication it’ll happen either.”
Typically, performance reviews can be seen as virtually useless because companies often muddle the message: what they mean by performance. And while that’s not entirely in the direct output for individual Google employees, the company has minced no words in showing it cares about revenue.
In its most recent third quarter, in which CEO Sundar Pichai said the company would sharpen its business focus, Google reported that revenue grew 6%—its second-slowest range of growth in roughly the past decade. And revenue per employee dropped nearly 15% that quarter, compared with the same period a year ago.
Google executives say the performance review changes are simply a way to improve production of employees who, having worked through a two-plus year pandemic, have readjusted to new ideas of work-life balance. But workers at the company see the changes as little more than a case for layoffs as revenue drops and a recession looms in the new year, The Information reported.
They can’t be blamed for seeing it that way: The tech sector has broadly struggled post-pandemic lockdown, after a boon for the industry saw the likes of Meta and Google grow quickly and hire incessantly. That all came crashing down.
In November alone, tech companies have announced 31,200 job cuts, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas, a firm that advises employers on layoffs.
Meta laid off 11,000 employees earlier November, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledging the company miscalculated the pandemic boon as it expanded its business and workforce. Elon Musk slashed half of Twitter’s workforce after taking the helm. Before that, Snap laid off roughly 20% of employees, and Netflix, Coinbase, Robinhood, and Tesla have all cut down headcount. Amazon recently said it plans to cut roughly 10,000 employees.
Google has already been quietly trimming costs, cutting travel budgets while nixing team functions and social outings, along with shuttering whole teams that required some employees to reapply for different roles. The company has yet to announce significant widespread layoffs, but the writing seems to be on wall if you ask its workers: Those inside and outside the Mountain View headquarters are looking to see if the tech giant will be next to put employees on the chopping block.
“Google execs will want to cut people,” a former executive at the company told Insider. “Just to clean up the culture by making people a little more scared.”
