Which is about how many people Google itself hired over the course of the Pandemic, for context.

So it's not the end of the world. It really is a pretty minor set back so far.

I believe you are talking about amazon hiring 100000 warehouse workers, not google

I can't believe google hired 100k people during the pandemic. Can you source this claim?

Of course not, because it was pulled from his ass. Google had 120k employees in 2019, and 150k in 2021. Even with churn, the OP is way off

Half of Googlers are temps:

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=56878

so double the numbers for a sense of how many people G actually employs.

TVCs are temps, vendors, and contractors - they aren't typically considered hires. It's covering things like mat/pat leave backfill to kitchen staff.

Oh you sweet summer child

It could still be true if Google fired 70k people. But we’d have heard of that.

These are mostly recruiters and biz people being laid off, from all of those companies. Maybe stop spewing panic infused ignorance.

The submission itself is such a link. Did you even read it, or just dive straight into the comments?

> Recruiting will be disproportionately affected since we’re planning to hire fewer people next year. We’re also restructuring our business teams more substantially.

Add to that thousands of smaller companies laying of 10 people here, 100 people there. We will not hear about it, but it quickly adds up.

In addition, we go from a phase where people new in the job market (students etc) were being hired quickly to no one hiring them. So there are both laid off people and new entrants added to the pool.

> In addition, we go from a phase where people new in the job market (students etc) were being hired quickly to no one hiring them. So there are both laid off people and new entrants added to the pool.

I don’t think that’s necessarily true. Hiring students is much cheaper so companies may still hire them whilst letting go of other expensive employees at a cost of quality.

Try ~50,000. https://layoffs.fyi/