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Google, which is on track to make tens of billions of dollars in profits this year, has had to come to terms with a slowdown.
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Google workers in Switzerland recently sent a letter to the company’s vice-president of human resources, outlining their worries that a new employee evaluation system could be used to cull the workforce.
“The number and spread of reports that reached us indicates that at least some managers were aggressively pressured to apply a quota” on a process that could lead to employees getting negative ratings and potentially losing their jobs, five workers and employee representatives wrote in the letter, which was obtained by The New York Times.
