Google offering ‘voluntary exit’ for employees working on Pixel, Android
Google offering ‘voluntary exit’ for employees working on Pixel, Android
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Google offering ‘voluntary exit’ for employees working on Pixel, Android
Last year, the teams responsible for Pixel and Android were merged into one division, and Google today announced a “voluntary exit program.”
So, unless you're enslaved, every job has a "voluntary exit". It's called "quitting". What Zuck and his people are trying to do is downsize without the bad press that comes from.... uh, firing people. I mean "downsizing"...
The difference here is that leaving would come with a severance package. Offering the same kind of severance package that a company would normally give during layoffs, but allowing people to selectively take it seems like a very reasonable way to handle reducing payroll.
I imagine that, if not enough people take the offer, they might then have layoffs so this seems like a pretty humane and nice way to handle a tough situation.