A new performance review system at Google has prompted outcry from a group of employees in Switzerland concerned that the company is using it as a pretext for layoffs, according to The New York Times. Members of the group, an employee representation body called ER-CH, sent a letter to Google HR chief Fiona Cicconi complaining of confusion about who qualified for “support check-ins”—meetings with...
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