Google Told its Employees to Work With “More Hunger”

In a leaked memo, Google told its employees to work with “more hunger.”. The memo was so vague that employees probably wonder if the snack room is about to be locked.

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet, the company that owns Google, also said that employees should be “more entrepreneurial”.  Will employees need to learn how to open those padlocks?

In another part of his email, Pichai talked about “economic headwinds”. He said that Google would hire fewer people for the rest of the year.

The Wall Street Journal got a copy of the email, which said: “Going forward, we need to be more entrepreneurial and work with more urgency, sharper focus, and more hunger than we have on brighter days.”

In some cases, this means combining investments and making processes easier to use. In other cases, this means stopping deployment and moving resources to areas with a higher priority.

“Scarcity breeds clarity,” Pichai said next. “This is something we have said since the beginning of Google.

What leads to better products?

“It’s what makes people pay attention and be creative, which leads to better products that help people all over the world”.

He also said, “That’s the chance we have today, and I’m excited for us to take it again.”

It comes after Facebook’s head of engineering, Maher Saba, sent an internal memo to engineering managers. It told them to “force out” employees who are “coasting.”

Saba wrote, “If a direct report is lazy or doesn’t do a good job, we don’t need them; they’re letting the company down.” You can’t let someone be net neutral or bad for Meta if you’re a manager.”

The Information wrote about Saba’s memo, which came a few weeks after Mark Zuckerberg told Meta employees directly during a Q&A, “Realistically, there are probably a lot of people at the company who shouldn’t be here.”

He also said, “Part of what I hope will happen if I raise expectations, set more ambitious goals, and turn up the heat a bit is that some of you will decide that this place isn’t for you, and that’s fine with me.”

The site to keep track of tech jobs Layoffs.FYI said in May that tech companies were firing the most employees since 2020.

In that month, companies fired the most people in two years. In April, 66 tech companies gave out 16,800 pink slips.

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