Google's CEO Sundar Pinchai Tells His Coddled Workers to Improve Their Focus and Increase Productivity As the Woke Weaklings Fear Coming Layoffs

He wants to "minimize distractions."

Say everyone, can you think of anything that might cause massive distractions at Google? Maybe consuming four or six hours (or more!) of every workers' time, every single day?

Maybe a topic, maybe a kind of Social Witch-Hunt engaged in by people who aren't capable of actually doing their jobs so they keep everyone in constant fear of losing theirs, conducted on the company's internal communications systems?

Womp-womp.

Google's top executive told his employees that they need to improve their focus and productivity as the tech giant faces fierce economic headwinds that has employees worried they may lose their jobs.

Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google's parent company Alphabet, told his employees in an all-hands meeting on Wednesday that he would be soliciting ideas on how best to get "better results faster."

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He added: "There are real concerns that our productivity as a whole is not where it needs to be for the head count we have."

Pichai wants to solicit employee input as to how the company can "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," he said.

Last week, Alphabet reported its slowest quarterly revenue growth in two years as the digital advertising market is feeling the pinch of an economic recession.

Wait I thought there was no recession, just a transition to a nongrowth environment. Janet Yellin told me so.

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Executives also tried to ease concern among workers that layoffs were in the offing.

Google's chief people officer, Fiona Cicconi, told employees that the company continues to hire and that at the moment there were no plans to lay people off.

Ominously, she did not rule out layoffs in the future.

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"Even though we can't be sure of the economy in the future, we're not currently looking to reduce Google's overall workforce."

Cicconi added: "I really get that there is some anxiety around this based on what we're hearing from other companies and what they're doing and as Sundar mentioned, we're still hiring for critical roles."

So... "we're still hiring for critical roles" and "we're not currently looking to reduce Google's overall workforce" of course means that they'll be making cuts in the future, and will be cutting staff in specific, non-performing areas.

I'm thinking... the socially-justicey sort of areas.

Over at the merged Discovery Warner, CEO David Zaslav is making all kinds of cuts intended to slim the gigantically indebted company down.

And now comes the crying that the phony diversity and SJW make-work hires that were only possible in a Trump boom economy have to be shed in the misery of a Biden recession.

As David Zaslav prepared to take over Warner Bros. Discovery Inc., one of the largest media companies in the world, he told friends in Hollywood that he would hire the best people he could find. Gender and racial diversity, while a factor, would not be his top priority, he said, according to multiple people he told.

An ailing company in financial straits will be making decisions based on merit and profitability and not on "diversity" and political fashionability?

I shan't believe it, I simply shannot.

Hey Biden voters -- this is what you voted for.

Companies could afford to remain luxuriously bloated and fat under Trump.

Now they'll have to become emaciated and squirrelly, like Biden.

His methods have resulted in a notable amount of homogeneity at the top of the new media giant. Given six seats on the new company's board, Zaslav and Discovery appointed a roster of all White male directors. The majority of the chief executive officer's 13 direct reports, many of whom were recent hires, are White men. Meanwhile, Zaslav in April fired Warner Bros. chief Ann Sarnoff, one of the highest-ranking women in Hollywood -- without filling her role -- and replaced WarnerMedia's heads of communications and finance with White men from Discovery.

Oh no he fired a woman without replacing her with another woman, for no other reason than It's the Woman's Seat Now.

As you may have noticed, he didn't replace her with anybody. He apparently decided that what she was doing wasn't worth doing and filled her job with... no one.

So I guess she was really making an impact with all that Girlboss Energy.

Lawmakers and advocacy groups say these staffing changes have heightened concerns that Discovery is bringing its poor track-record on diversity since merging with WarnerMedia in April. Late last year a group of US legislators, including Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren and Congressional Hispanic Caucus Chair Joaquin Castro, sent a letter to the Justice Department outlining concerns about the merger, including warnings about representation at the company and on screen. People of color accounted for just 30% of Discovery's workforce going into the merger, according to its public filings--the lowest share of any major media company.

"Discovery over the years had done a poor job in terms of Latino representation in almost every facet of their business -- on screen, behind the camera, executives and so forth," Castro said.

Sorry, again, if you want to mulct corporations with this Diversity racket, grifters, you'll need them to be healthy and profitable, and that means you'll need Trump, or a Trumpish president.

Lean times produce hard men

Hard men produce good times

Good times produce Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion officers

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion officers produce lean times

Welcome the lean times, SJWs.

I hear Walmart is hiring. Just kidding, you're not qualified.

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