Staffing Shake-Up: Upheaval and job loss continue at some of the best-known
Internet companies. Sunnyvale, California-based Yahoo already has shown some
employees the door, with Microsoft swarming in to possibly acquire the
trailblazing online company. Now Yahoo’s chief rival, Google, is getting set to
drop the hammer on employees, following its recent acquisition of online ad
pioneer DoubleClick.
Buried in a company blog by Eric Schmidt, Google’s chairman and CEO, comes
news that an unspecified number of acquisition-related layoffs are afoot. The
combined companies are undertaking the task of “matching and aligning
DoubleClick employees with our organizational plan for the business,” Schmidt
writes in a March 11 entry on the company’s blog.
Continuing, Schmidt notes: “This will involve determining the right staffing
levels for all functions and will ensure that we have the right people assigned
to the right responsibilities within Google.
Schmidt also writes: “As with most mergers, there may be reductions in
headcount. We expect these to take place in the U.S. and possibly in other
regions as well. We know that DoubleClick is built on the strength of its
people. For this reason we’ll strive to minimize the impact of this process on
all of our clients and employees.”
Google makes no mention of the potential job cuts in its official news
statement issued March 11.
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