Will Google announce layoffs of >5% Google employees by EOY?
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This market will resolve positively if an official email or announcement from Sundar Pichai or an official Google representative explicitly announces either X% layoffs where X>=5, or X layoffs where X(/#Google employees) >= 0.05. The last public data I'm aware of set the number of Google employees around 160,000, so we'll say that would be layoffs of 8,000 employees.

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bought Ṁ1,697 of NO

@TheSkeward This appears to have not happened. Just some stack ranking, not sufficiently massive layoffs to hit the bar given here. This should be able to safely resolve NO.

predicted NO

Please resolve this market

predicted NO

At this point with all these fake articles on layoffs, this bet should probably be added to the “free money” group.

predicted YES

@KateTran See my comment below on the similarly sourced Forbes article

predicted NO

@KateTran the headline is inaccurate. It's asking for 6% of workforce to be rated lower than expectations, but that doesn't imply firing all those people.

predicted YES

If anyone's updating on https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2022/11/21/alphabet-seeks-to-cut-10000-poor-performing-googlers/?sh=3dc33d712704, the article seems to be based on the real-life facts that an investor holding 0.5% of GOOG shares publicly called for layoffs, and that Google's current internal rating system assigns 6% of employees to its bottom two ratings. The rest has no visible source.

bought Ṁ100 of YES

I honestly think this market is overpriced, but I am holding YES as insurance.

Does this market consider full-time employees only, or also temps, vendors, and contractors?

predicted NO

@Sjlver I would argue that this should count FTEs.