Google CEO Sundar Pichai reportedly grew agitated during a “heated” all-hands meeting in which an employee asked why the search engine was nickel-and-diming workers by taking away perks and benefits. One worker summoned the nerve to ask Pichai why Google was “nickel-and-diming employees” when the company reported “record profits and huge cash reserves,” according to audio obtained by CNBC. Don’t miss: Remember the summer spike in layoffs that pointed to a U.S…. Source link
Read More »‘We don’t get to choose the macroeconomic conditions always,’ Google CEO Sundar Pichai tells disgruntled staff
Google CEO Sundar Pichai reportedly grew agitated during a “heated” all-hands meeting in which an employee asked why the search engine was nickel-and-diming workers by taking away perks and benefits. One worker summoned the nerve to ask Pichai why Google was “nickel-and-diming employees” when the company reported “record profits and huge cash reserves,” according to audio obtained by CNBC. Don’t miss: Remember the summer spike in layoffs that pointed to a U.S…. Source link
Read More »Google has yet another ‘heated’ all-hands grilling CEO Sundar Pichai over spending cuts. He replies workers ‘shouldn’t always equate fun with money’
Dissatisfied Google employees have put top executives on the hot seat a few times this year. Most recently, they interrogated CEO Sundar Pichai at an all-hands meeting this week about the company’s spending cuts amid a challenging economic climate, CNBC first reported. At the meeting, employees submitted questions via an internal Google tool, and fellow workers then up-voted popular questions for executives to answer. When asked about why the company is limiting certain… Source link
Read More »Google CEO Pichai fields questions on cost cuts at all-hands meeting
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai gestures during a session at the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, on January 22, 2020. Fabrice COFFRINI | AFP | Getty Images As Google tries to navigate an unfamiliar environment of slowing growth, cost cutting and employee dissent over cultural changes, CEO Sundar Pichai is finding himself on the defensive. At a companywide all-hands meeting this week, Pichai was faced with tough questions from employees related to cuts to travel and entertainment… Source link
Read More »DocuSign names former Google executive Allan Thygesen as new CEO
Allan Thygesen, attends the YouTube Brandcast 2022 at Imperial Theatre on May 17, 2022 in New York City. Roy Rochlin | Getty Images DocuSign shares rose more than 3% in extended trading after the electronic signature software maker announced it has hired an Alphabet executive, Allan Thygesen, to be its next CEO. The announcement comes three month after DocuSign said its CEO for the past five years, Dan Springer, was stepping down. Like other cloud software companies, DocuSign enjoyed a wave of… Source link
Read More »Google Public Sector brings in new CEO Karen Dahut from Booz Allen Hamilton
Written by Nihal Krishan Sep 22, 2022 | FEDSCOOP Google Cloud has appointed Karen Dahut as CEO of its government services arm Google Public Sector. The executive joins from federal contracting giant Booz Allen Hamilton, where she was previously president of the company’s global defense business. In the new C-suite role, Dahut is tasked with expanding Google Public Sector’s presence in the the… Source link
Read More »Yahoo CEO Taps Former CBS Interactive Colleague as Legal Chief
Yahoo Inc. has hired Darin Bassin to become its new chief legal officer and corporate secretary starting Oct. 10, according to an internal company memorandum viewed by Bloomberg Law. Bassin joins Yahoo from Paramount Global, where he’s spent nearly the past two years as general counsel and executive vice president of corporate development for the media company’s streaming group. “Darin is an exceptional leader with extensive experience as a general counsel in the digital and media… Source link
Read More »Yahoo CEO Taps Former CBS Interactive Colleague as Legal Chief
Yahoo Inc. has hired Darin Bassin to become its new chief legal officer and corporate secretary starting Oct. 10, according to an internal company memorandum viewed by Bloomberg Law. Bassin joins Yahoo from Paramount Global, where he’s spent nearly the past two years as general counsel and executive vice president of corporate development for the media company’s streaming group. “Darin is an exceptional leader with extensive experience as a general counsel in the digital and media… Source link
Read More »Yahoo CEO Taps Former CBS Interactive Colleague as Legal Chief
Yahoo Inc. has hired Darin Bassin to become its new chief legal officer and corporate secretary starting Oct. 10, according to an internal company memorandum viewed by Bloomberg Law. Bassin joins Yahoo from Paramount Global, where he’s spent nearly the past two years as general counsel and executive vice president of corporate development for the media company’s streaming group. “Darin is an exceptional leader with extensive experience as a general counsel in the digital and media… Source link
Read More »Google’s Former CEO Thinks Hybrid Work Is A Terrible Idea. He’s Right, But For an Entirely Different Reason
For most of the past few years, Google–like every company–has been rethinking how its employees work. During the pandemic, most of them worked from home. Now that it seems to be mostly over, a lot of managers would like those employees to come back to the office. Balancing that tension are leaders trying to figure out the best way to help employees be productive, or even what that even means. Google, a company known for spending a lot of energy and resources creating interesting and… Source link
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